Le récit poétique en question

This paper examines the problematic category of poetic narrative: widely used in historical works dealing with the literature of the 1920s, it enables ambiguities and semantic shifts. After an overview of critical texts, the whole variety of its application will be considered in relation to Le Voleur de Talan by Reverdy, Giraudoux's Simon le pathétique and Crevel's Détours, all three associated to this intergeneric category, according to different criteria.