Przesławny los sekretnej poezji. Jean Paulhan – piewca hainteny merina

The article concerns the works of Jean Paulhan, who promoted the genre of African poetry hainteny merina. In 1913, three years after Paulhan came back from Madagascar, where he had spent more than two years, one hundred and sixty popular hainteny merina (Malagasy) poems were published in Paris. It was the poetry of authority and struggle, named also the poetry of amorous dispute. Translated and explained, it would inspire in the interwar period and later on the Malagasy writers (Rabearivelo, Ranaivo) and the French ones (Éluard, Quéneau).