抄録
“The Windows” (« Les Fenêtres »), a prose poem by Charles Baudelaire, is a metapoem that deals with the act of composing poetry itself by foregrounding a correlation between the act of seeing the external world and the self-narrative. This paper focuses on subjectivity as a figure in which these two aspects are interwoven. Until now, most critical interpretations have emphasized the narrator’s egocentric gaze, similar to its reflection in the mirror. However, the real problem of the text lies in the particular mechanism whereby the spectator-narrator “frames” the images of the other and transforms them into a “tableau.” By examining this experience of framing and viewing the tableau, we see an imaginary enlargement of the aspects of image (a “suggestion-effect”) that inevitably entail an instability in the positioning of the spectator as well as in his self-recognition.
