Entretien sur des faits divers
illustré par André Lhote
Jean PaulhanRené Martin-Guelliotillustrations : André Lhote
_"It's not that I lack illusions," he said. I have just as many as you. But I fear I have lost the sense of illusion." (Marivaux, The Philosopher's Cabinet)
Dedication by Jean Paulhan
I am gradually building my wings. I attach a feather every month. (Joubert)
Dedication of Jean Paulhan to Cassilda and André Rolland de Renéville
There are two editions of Jean Paulhan's text on faits divers: the first, in 1930 (Entretiens sur des faits-divers), was published for the Societe des Medecins Bibliophiles with a portrait of the author by Andre Lhote. The second, expanded edition appeared in 1945 at Gallimard, also illustrated by Andre Lhote (and retitled Entretien sur des faits divers).
...It presents itself as a reconstruction of the interviews that Jean Paulhan had, sixteen years earlier, with the astonishing and rigorous René Martin-Guelliot, founder and director of the magazine Le Spectateur (1909-1914). Jean Paulhan begins his book with a line borrowed from Montaigne, on the sadness of Psammenitus. He ends it with this conclusion: “It would be little if our mind were naturally confusing and weird: he is so strangely built that the monster he forms seems, the more monster, flattering and plausible it is. » It will be noted in passing that this René Martin-Guelliot is mentioned by Walter Benjamin (Gesammelte Schriften, IV, 2, p. 1011). Bernard Baillaud
Faits divers à la une, Bernard Baillaud
Notice sur les articles du Spectateur
Editeur : Gallimard