Between Resonances and Legacies: Literary Correspondences in Vie et mort d’un étang by Marie Gevers and Il pleut dans ma maison by Paul Willems

Abstract

The work of Marie Gevers and Paul Willems offers a poetic and philosophical perspective on nature. Through water, landscapes, and the cyclical rhythm of time, they offer a reflection on the human condition, death, and the fragile beauty of existence in harmony with the natural world. Gevers’s Vie et mort d’un étang (1950) and Willems’s Il pleut dans ma maison (1962) are distinguished not only by their ability to give voice to nature, but also by the subtle connections that establish a dialogue between their works. This article offers an analysis of these works by Gevers and Willems, drawing on the perspective of ecopoetics, and ancient and modern philosophical movements. It highlights how these authors give nature a central and autonomous role in their narratives.