No início era Serge: a poesia em língua francesa de Sérgio Milliet

ABSTRACT

This article outlines a brief overview on the French language poetry written by Sérgio Milliet which came to be the start of his literary career. Unlike his poetry production in Portuguese, these inaugural poems were never revisited by the author in later editions of his poetic oeuvre. In addition to a quick perusal of the works published while still in his Genevese period (works of similar essence), we have the comments made on one of his poems published in the visual arts and literary magazine Klaxon, “La Guerre”, and on the book published in Belgium, in 1923, intitled Œil-de-bœuf. These accounts may be able to point the way Milliet’s poetry would come to take as of 1926 and provide the bases for a more accurate analysis of Sérgio Milliet’s poetic criticism and translations.

KEYWORDS:
Sérgio Milliet; Modernism; Poetry; French-Brazilian Relations