French, dlalang and incorrect poetry: language and poetry by Katalin Molnar

This article approaches the Relationship between language theory and poetics in the margins (articles, manifestos, interviews, prefaces and footnotes) of Katalin Molnar's work. Since the end of 19th century, many poets, following Mallarme, have complained about imperfections of languages, and assigned to poetry the aim of compensating for their defaults. Molnar, a French writer born and educated in Hungary, take up some of her predecessors' complaints: she laments, for instance, the arbitrary character of language and the relationship between communication and power. But her theory shows also many differences from theirs. And the poetic "solutions" she puts forward bring something new in this tradition: she doesn't try so much to remedy language imperfections as to expose them and to play with the deficiencies, the stereotypes, the poverties of speech.