Jean Dubuffet & Jean Paulhan, 1944-1968
Jean DubuffetJean PaulhanRare are the correspondences registered at the crossroads of the artistic, literary and editorial spheres. The more than six hundred letters exchanged, from 1944 to 1968, by Jean Dubuffet and Jean Paulhan, in addition to surprising and delighting with the richness, vigor and undeniable interest of their words, are exceptional figures for the extent of the field they embrace - to the point of making them a remarkable panorama captured on the spot of the intellectual, political and cultural life of the immediate post-war.
But to escape the simple status of archives, even if they are first-hand, it is still necessary for a writing to constantly deliver the exchange from its sole future as a document. Now Paulhan and Dubuffet are both formidable and prolix letter writers. If each letter is written with the concern of its recipient, it is therefore also with concern for the means it uses, the language and the style - so that it goes beyond the framework of the exchange where it is inevitably taken to offer everyone a reading pleasure which, over a period of more than twenty years, is never betrayed. The amateur will thus have the opportunity to discover the joys of Dubuffet's writing; the curious will have access to a valuable source of information on the invention of Art Brut, the creation of the Cahiers de la Pléiade, the genesis of the texts and works of Jean Dubuffet; the connoisseur will be surprised by the breadth and depth of field of the picture of Parisian intellectual life.
Publisher : Gallimard