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Aragon's Earliest Known Poem: The Birth of a Poet Soon to be Buried Beneath the Shells of the Great WarRead
One is not born Aragon, one becomes him. Through the trauma of the first World War, the upheaval of Dadaism and the enthusiasm of Surrealism, through communist conviction, through Resistance to oppression, through love…
Before Elsa's gaze, before the Affiches rouges, the comrades, the artistic revolutions (even before the shell that would bury him in the trenches) Aragon is already Aragon, from the very first poem, feverishly written in pencil on a schoolboy's page and given to his friend "Anicet"…
- November 10, 2023Le Feu Follet's Letter #31Journey Through the Ages of Beauvoir"Man can only find in the existence of other men a justification for his own existence. […] I concern others and they concern me; this is an indivisible truth: the relationship between self and other is as inseparable as the relationship between subject and object. […] To want to be free is also to want others to be free; this will is not an abstract formula, it indicates concrete actions for each to accomplish." (For a Morality of Ambiguity, Gallimard, 1947).
- September 20, 2023The bookshop's team at the Grand Palais éphémère Book FairThe bookstore will be exceptionally closed on Thursday September 21 due to the presence of the entire team at the 2023 International Rare Book & Graphic Arts Fair at the ephemeral Grand Palais. Join us! Invitations on simple request.
- September 12, 2023The Art NewspaperDes feuilles d'automne à foisonEvery year since 1984, on the initiative of the Syndicat national de la librairie ancienne et moderne (SLAM), one of the world's largest libraries has been held in Paris. The Salon du livre rare & des arts graphiques brings together the most advanced booksellers in all fields of bibliophily.
- October 20, 2023Einstein: A Seminal Postcard from ZurichExceptional and very aesthetic card from Albert Einstein to “the friend of the greatest geniuses of his time” – according to Schrödinger – the mathematician and physicist Ludwig Hopf, who allowed Einstein to meet another genius of the 20th century: Carl Jung . Here the master invites his student to a dinner including among the guests the scientist Max Abraham, future great rival of the Zurich years and fervent opponent of Einstein's theory of relativity.
- September 18, 2023Le Feu Follet's Letter #29Grand Palais 2023 CatalogCamus, Wagner, Colette, Hugo, Zola, Baudelaire & consorts.
- August 30, 2023Antiquities hunters from both banks, in unison behind the second-hand booksellers on the quays!What a great idea! The opening parade of the Olympic Games on the Seine, what a journey rich in culture! Imagine these athletes, heirs of Homer whose Iliad, the inaugural novel of Western History, includes the first mention of the sporting games organized by Achilles; imagine them running along the river, over which reigns Poseidon who, according to the writings of Greek historians, ensured the first victory of the Games by offering Pelops a golden chariot and winged horses...
- October 20, 2023Le Feu Follet's Letter #30The Bookshop Dressed to the NinesFor its thirtieth newsletter, Edition-Originale journeys between the Alpha and the Omega of literature and science, taking stock of numerical aids and literary additions found in the numerous works and manuscripts drawn from its bookshelves.
- September 15, 2023Rare Book Fair 2023 Grand Palais | CatalogOur catalog for the International Rare Book Fair which will be held from September 21 to 24, 2023 at the ephemeral Grand Palais. Find us at Stand F9, invitations on request at [email protected]!
- August 30, 2023Zoom on... Octave UzanneBouquinistes et Bouquineurs, Physiologie des Quais de Paris“In a word, it is a long ribbon of humanity, neither better nor worse, which runs all along the very cradle of the one and true great Paris of art and history”
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