Abstract
Translation of the book of important French philosopher and epistemologist. The main subject of the book is the phenomenon of poetic dreaming which constitutes a specific manner of the reading of poetic images.
Afterword of the translator introduces in the work of G. Bachelard and more minutely deals with his conception of the phenomenology of the poetic image in his last books (Poetic of the space and Poetic of the Reverie).