Saint John Perse and the Aesthetics of the Hybrid

St. John Perse's entire creative output implicitly traces an unprecedented aesthetic evolution through a continuous process of to-ing and fro-ing between different literary registers. At the start of his career he was lyrical; later he became epic before pouring himself once and for all into a modernity that values synthesis and abandons rupture. In fact it drew on all trends forms and backgrounds to keep up with the times: it mixed all aesthetics (Romantic Symbolist Surrealist...) and all nomenclatures (biological zoological botanical...) to testify to its artistic and philosophical maturity in a cratylism that reinforced hermeticism giving rise to limitless aesthetic hybridization. This hybridization destroyed the partitions between literary movements and abolished the frontiers between the Ages and Languages of Humanity.