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Like its author, Solzhenitsyn's most important book has survived the most harrowing of trials. Written while running “from one hiding place to another”, it also cost the life of one of the writer's “invisible” typists. This first edition published in Paris is the result of remarkable collective courage.
In the 19th century, theater inspired the greatest artistic and political ambitions. Writers coveted the seductive power the stage exerted over all social classes. Through theater, Hugo launched the Romantic Revolution, Balzac sought fortune, Dumas fils wanted to equal his father, Sand reunited her family, Gautier set off in search of the ideal while Musset became disillusioned, Rostand reinvented eloquence whereas Zola and Flaubert joyfully received boos and whistles.
In his life as an avid art collector and connoisseur, he loved every artwork illustration and proof – to the point of dreaming himself an odalisque laying atop a tableau of paper. Le Feu Follet has rediscovered the actual archives of Malraux's Musée Imaginaire, from which he created a new Art History, as intimate as it is universal!
"I experience spasms, a sort of shivering, a lot of yawning, disgust, total despondency, the blood rushes violently to my head, then I feel dizzy, spinning, which makes me stumble, and a thousand other things proving a great tension in the body, and a great irritation in the nervous system."
"New York likes neither to sit nor to lie down. It's a city that sleeps standing"
Jean Cocteau wrote a dazzling textual portrait of the city that never sleeps for the newspaper L'Aurore, after a twenty-day stay in New York.
As 2024 marks the 100th year anniversary of Kafka's passing, it is an ideal time to explore his writings and persona from a different perspective.
“Denoël [My publisher], the three little dots didn't appeal to him. Frightened, he was. Reproving. We were leaving good tradition, repudiating all form: it was no longer attached to anything... Ah, this time, my publisher was no longer ensuring the novel's success! He had to absolve himself of any responsibility. To walk away from the gambling table...
‘Dear Céline', he began, ‘I'm afraid you've made a mistake... Let's see, even for a man like you, there are limits, a measure to be kept!'
His features were severe, his gaze perplexed, his voice anguished (but very dignified). Brave Denoël! ‘My good friend, I warn you. And then there was something else. These passages were too daring, really too daring! Of course, art has its rights, but still...' ”
He explored all manner of art forms, from drawing to ceramics. The insatiable genius even tried his hand at theater with his play Le désir attrapé par la queue. Yet there was one he seemed to shy away from: the "graphic" art of the letter!
Despite his prolific correspondence, Picasso's entirely autographed letters are extremely rare, as Laurence Madeline points out in her article on the confidential activity of the great artist:“The inertia paralyzing Picasso, who preferred his work as an artist to that of a secretary, made the letters he took pleasure in writing more essential and more touching” (Laurence Madeline, “Picasso épistolier”, L'Herne, n° 106).
And yet, when the immense artist puts pen to paper, he transforms the seemingly insignificant letter into a pictorial and multicolored masterpiece!
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