Jean Paulhan the underground, Cerisy conference

"This book is the first attempt to do justice, finally, to the that Éluard celebrated, from 1919, with the beautiful name of inventor. Inventor, Paulhan was at the head of the N.R.F., in his tireless work as discoverer and of awakener. He was also and especially in his work. A surprisingly work abundant and varied, which touches on ethnology as well as painting, politics as well as rhetoric, and of which we will find in these pages an inventory almost complete. But a work whose charms and very diversity do not that better appear the very deep and very firm unity. Because it is always at Paulhan, whatever the subject he addresses, the same questioning on the language, its forms and its nature. Major questions of our time. To except that for Paulhan it is never a question of fleeing reality in words, but to find him there."

Cerisy conference, 1976.

Communications from M. Augé, M. Beaujour, Y. Belaval, J. Bersani, M. Charles, R. Etiemble, T. Ferenczi, F. Grover, G. Raillard, R. de Solier, J.-Y. Tadié, S. Yeschua, J.-C. Zylberstein.

Interventions by S. Allen, R. André, D. Arban, D. Aury, A. Berne-Joffroy, P. Enckell, M. de Gandillac, L. Lambrichs, D. Maccabee, M. Nemer, G. Olgiati, P. Oster, Y. Regnier, R. Seckel, N. Suckling.