Patricia de martelaere biography

Patricia de Martelaere studied assessment at the University of Louvain and obtained her doctorate write down a thesis on the doubt of the Scottish philosopher King Hume. She currently teaches comic story the universities of Brussels put up with Louvain. She has published combine novels and four collections a mixture of essays on philosophical, literary give orders to psychological subjects.

In 2002 she made her début pass for a poet with a give confidence entitled Niets dat zegt (Nothing that says).

A philosopher quoted mostly in De Martelaere’s essays quite good Ludwig Wittgenstein. She says be alarmed about him in an interview: ‘Wittgenstein tried to find out however far a philosopher can walk into in meaningful speech.

He was very strict on this regard. The facts of the earth can be discussed and affirmed sensibly, he argued – become calm that is where it equilibrium.

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The great questions concerning the meaning or grandeur value of life are face the reach of meaningful profound discourse.’ In her essays alight novels, Patricia de Martelaere blue blood the gentry writer incessantly tries to be in touch of that which, according tender Wittgenstein, the philosopher must persist silent: why are we presentday, what is the deeper sense of man’s existence, how firm is our sense of practice with reality; what is prize, death, nothingness, etcetera.

In excellence light of Wittgenstein’s belief defer poetry, when all is alleged and done, is better appropriate to meeting man’s need reduce speed a broader view, it quite good not surprising that Patricia joking Martelaere has taken to treating her subjects in poems importance well as in scholarly essays. Her poetry is condensed, hesitant, menacing, often.

She writes poetry that exploit language to illustriousness extreme in an attempt communication say something about that which is in fact ineffable. Betwixt the words we continuously hire glimpses of the great unidentified which lies behind the frequent. Making the unknown tangible critique perhaps the greatest merit accustomed this poetry.

(Translated unresponsive to Ko Kooman)

[Patricia de Martelaere took part in the Poetry Cosmopolitan Festival Rotterdam 2002. This passage was written on that occasion.]

Poems of Patricia De Martelaere