La poésie dans le théâtre de Koltès « Pas comme les poètes font de la musique des mots, mais comme on jouerait de la batterie »

Koltès’ training in a Jesuit establishment is not unrelated to the taste for rhetoric manifested in his œuvre. From La Marche to Roberto Zucco, the insertion of poetic fragments into the dialogue is evidence of this. Yet the link between his writing and poetry is not limited to this literary quality. His plays are in effect a form of “theatre-poetry” which, without undermining the meaning of what is said on stage, questions our rapport with language.