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Négritude, philosophical experience rather than racial identity
Seventy-five years after Rimbaud proclaimed the strangeness of the self, Frantz Fanon was confronted with his own foreignness. Steeped in the beliefs instilled by his upbringing, the Martinican born writer had considered himself 'white' before arriving in metropolitan France. He was then suddenly thrust into a body shaped by his own prejudices. The 'I' is no longer merely an other; the Other has become an 'I'.
This experience of alterity, endured within his own cultural community, is singular and reaches far beyond questions of ethnic identity or physical characteristics. It constitutes a moment of Cartesian deconstruction (a Cogito, non sum) that demands a reinvention of the self.
In Critique de la raison nègre, Achille Mbembe highlights the opportunity of such an intellectual undertaking: "such a moment, if experienced well, allows the Black Man to rediscover himself as an autonomous source of creation, to attest that he is human".
The writers of the Négritude movement are in no way sectarian: they propose an ontological refoundation capable of addressing what may prove one of the defining identity questions of the world to come: I think, but who am I?
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THE INVESTIGATION. Négritude's epic literary and poetic journey
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The clichés and prejudice associated with people of African descent are distinguished from other essentialisms by their possessive dimension. From the 'good Negro' of Beecher Stowe to the 'savage Negro' of 1930s French colonial exhibitions, the human being is considered only through the prism of his relationship to domination.
It is only with Batouala's Goncourt Prize in 1921 that a new symbolic era begins in France: one that would soon transform the reification of the 'Negro' into the potentiality of négritude.
The incredible literary and poetic adventure unwittingly inaugurated by Maran would not be recognised again by the Goncourt jury members for more than seventy years, until Texaco. With Chamoiseau's work, language is no longer defined in terms of submission or rebellion, but of the invention of a reconciled identity through a "memory language invoking all of the world's languages".
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FOCUS. Exceedingly rare and published mock up program for the Ballets Russes
in French and Hungarian
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"with the prodigious flowering of the Russian Ballet, revealing one after another Bakst, Nijinski, Benoist, the genius of Stravinski, Princess Yourbeletieff, the youthful sponsor of all these new great men, appeared bearing on her head an immense, quivering egret, unknown to the women of Paris, which they all sought to copy, one might have supposed that this marvellous creature had been imported in their innumerable baggage, and as their most priceless treasure, by the Russian dancers"
Proust, Sodom and Gomorrha
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"with the prodigious flowering of the Russian Ballet, revealing one after another Bakst, Nijinski, Benoist, the genius of Stravinski, Princess Yourbeletieff, the youthful sponsor of all these new great men, appeared bearing on her head an immense, quivering egret, unknown to the women of Paris, which they all sought to copy, one might have supposed that this marvellous creature had been imported in their innumerable baggage, and as their most priceless treasure, by the Russian dancers"
Proust, Sodom and Gomorrha
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Our newest acquisitions
Alfred and Henri peel back the layers ◊ Saint-Exupéry is on cloud nine ◊ My accursed Kings’ castle
Snowy's catching seven crystal balls ◊ Brassens is a miracle singer
France will never fall off the map ◊ Michel is a supertzar ◊ Garbizza’s fine garbs
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Exceptional drawing gifted to the narrator of the first feature-length animated adaptation of Tintin
HERGÉ
Tintin. Les 7 boules de cristal
Casterman ◊ Tournai 1948
New edition of the twelfth album in the Tintin comic book series.
Exceptional presentation copy signed by Hergé, with an original ink drawing of Tintin and Snowy with his bone.
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Jules VERNE
Michel Strogoff followed by Un drame au Mexique
J. Hetzel ◊ Paris 1876
Rare first edition.
A handsome first edition copy of this celebrated Siberian adventure, attractively bound in contemporary bindings.
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Alfred de MUSSET
& BIDA & LANDELLE & PILLE
Œuvres complètes
Charpentier ◊ Paris 1865-1866
Charming illustrated edition featuring, as the frontispiece to the first volume, a portrait of Alfred de Musset after the original painting by Charles Landelle, together with 28 drawings by Alexandre Bida; one of the numbered copies printed on laid paper.
Handsome copy, extra-illustrated with 17 chine appliqué plates and 42 plates by Henri Pille engraved by Monziès, present in three states.
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Twice inscribed to Druon,
fervent admirer of Pagnol's work
Marcel PAGNOL à Maurice DRUON
Childhood Memories: My Father’s Glory – My Mother’s Castle
Éditions Pastorelly ◊ Monte-Carlo 1957-1958
First edition on ordinary paper for the second volume; statement of 1000th edition on the first volume.
Presentation copies, signed by Marcel Pagnol to Maurice Druon on each volume.
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Giovanni Antonio RIZZI-ZANNONI
Atlas historique de la France ancienne et moderne
Louis-Charles Desnos ◊ Paris 1765
First edition, first printing, complete with its engraved title page and dedication page, as well as its 59 maps, most of them multicoloured.
Superb historical atlas of France, finely hand-coloured, complete with its monumental folding map in perfect condition.
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Georges BRASSENS
La Tour des miracles
Paris ◊ 1953
First edition, no deluxe paper copies issued.
Complete with its illustrated dust-jacket.
Rare presentation copy, signed by Georges Brassens to Michel Soulié.
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The watercolour that uncovered the author of an anonymous plate in Le Bon Genre
Angelo GARBIZZA
Le Retour du bal
Original signed and dated watercolor
Paris ◊ Juin 1806
Original watercolour for plate No. 20 of the series Le Bon Genre published by La Mésangère (issued in 1817, 1822, and 1827).
An exceptional work, signed and dated by the illustrator Angelo Garbizza (1777-1813).
Provenance : collection Victorien Sardou.
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Antoine de SAINT-EXUPÉRY
Brevet d'invention aéronautique
Typescript with an autograph page
[1937-1938]
Original typescript of Saint-Exupéry patent titled "Method for Guiding Aeroplanes", addressing in particular the problem of piloting and guiding aircraft without visibility: a problem which, as he explains, is virtually solved...
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