« Celui qui dit la vérité / est lui-même Crétois ». Hans Faverey et la vérité

Although Hans Faverey appears to have been familiar with deconstructionism and post-structuralism (Derrida), the importance of this theoretical inspiration is limited: Faverey does not refrain from making truth claims and limit himself to playing intertextual games. He does, however, stress the paradoxical nature of truth. In this, Faverey is closer to Lacan than to Derrida’s, although it seems improbable that Lacan was a source of inspiration. Rather, Faverey’s truth concept goes back to the modernist tradition, with its impossible ambition to present in language what must remain absent from it. Faverey found material for his poetic project in textual sources in which paradoxes abound.