Les Causes Célèbres
Jean Paulhan"The pampas of Brazil abound in rhinoceroses: it is an animal that we can appear exactly as long as we have seen unicorns. "
(A. Thévert, Singularities of Antarctic France, 1585. chap. 3)
Dedication by Jean Paulhan
"The shoe is perfect when the foot doesn't feel it. The heart is perfect when it knows
no longer distinguish good from bad."
(Chinese proverb)
Dedication by Jean Paulhan
“The perfect shoe when the foot doesn’t feel it; the mind,
when he knows
no longer distinguish true from false"
(Lie-Tseu) Dedication of Jean Paulhan to André Breton
"If you are not able to take right for left and up for low, you will not enter the Kingdom." (The Acts of Peter) Dedication by Jean Paulhan
"We find our loss where we think we find our salvation, we find our salvation where we thought we would find our downfall._" Dedication of Jean Paulhan to Jean-Claude Zylberstein
"We physicists are accustomed to calling "famous causes",
those of the causes that we detect, whose effect is paradoxical or completely unexpected."
(Manual of physics for the use of people of the world, 1765.)
Dedication of Jean Paulhan to Odette and Frédéric [Choffé]
“The reader will wonder about the genre to which these Causes Célébres can be linked. In 1945, Jean Paulhan classified what he published among the “Tales”. I would even say: “miscellaneous facts”. Such news items are daily, private; they have nothing of the famous causes with which the courts deal. It is undoubtedly because we are not sensitive enough to their moral resonances. In any case, it is not a question of “Interviews on news items”. Each of these “Causes” is also a poetic “thing”. Yvon Belaval.
La logique du grain de sable : "Les Causes célèbres" de Jean Paulhan, ou l'art de l'inattendu
Jean Paulhan et l’obsession du plan
Lien vers la page d'un exemplaire dédicacé à André Breton
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