Le secret des règles
Jean PaulhanDrawings by Olivier Jung. Afterword by Bernard Baillaud.
2015 – 56 pages – 12 x 21 cm – ISBN 978.2.85194.958.5
In the arts, says Alain, you must first do. This is the first point, the most obvious of all and the most forgotten. To make a beautiful pot, start by making a pot. A beautiful staircase, make a staircase. Where does it come from that we must first follow the rules, and imitate some model, even if it means thinking about what we have done afterwards.
With great method, but not without a hint of incisive humor, Jean Paulhan attempts in this unpublished text to unravel the mysteries of Alain's thoughts. By mysteries are meant the paradoxes which bathe it: a peremptory but delicate thought, certain without yet having any concern for the truth. In a delicious mimetic tone, Paulhan illuminates what links him to Alain, beyond the problem, the proof or the solution, beyond even the idea or the imagination: thinking as a profession whose only valid laws are the rules of language.
A copy accompanied by a drawing by Olivier Jung and the original manuscript by Jean Paulhan.
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13 copies accompanied by an original drawing by Olivier Jung.
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487 copies on vellum.
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Editeur : Fata Morgana