Textes réunis par Franck Bauer. ISBN : 978-2-84133-384-4.International audienceMany of Lorand Gaspar's collected poems were published several times, each editionappearing as a different version of the text. The purpose of this study is to ponder overthe meaning of such rewriting, given the author's intention to undermine the assumptionthat signs are arbitrary, through the incarnation of language. Two periods of Gaspar'sworks are studied: in the first one rewriting appears as a vitalist manifestation linkedwith the movements of nature, the poem being the continuation of the world; later,rewriting becomes the vehicle of doubt: opening a tragic gap in the world, it questionsthe adequacy of words and things. However, rewriting also provides mea...