Style
Ponge stated that his overarching goal was to create a "single cosmogony" through his works, an aim readily apparent in poems like "Le Galet" which is a miniature cosmogony all by itself. Each of the works in the collection explores some object in the corporeal world, "borrowing the brevity and infallibility of the dictionary definition and the sensory aspect of the literary description". Lee Fahnestock, one of Le parti pris des choses’ translators, describes the work as "construct a new form of definition-description". The style shown in Le parti pris des choses was Ponge's first foray into what would become his definitive trademark.
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