St茅phane Zagdanski: Rare
St茅phane Zagdanski's new autobiographical novel, RARE, relates the life and thoughts day by day of a Parisian man of letters obsessed by a question: 鈥榃hat is writing鈥�. In this way, RARE is the diary of a writing process.
This story, which starts in English and continues in French, relates its own transformation all along the conception and the extraordinary redaction of 鈥楥haos Br没lant鈥�. However, RARE doesn鈥檛 simply describe a metamorphosis, it is the metamorphosis itself.
鈥業 was about to write by hand a novel which would describe a writer鈥檚 inner life. I was about to make tangible the thoughts of a man dedicated to writing. A man who would decide, after having consecrated an entire novel to the nihilist destruction of the world, to save his own writing in a Noah鈥檚 Ark of Art, made of the paintings this story would be written on.鈥�
RARE, page 99
Indeed, RARE spreads out its narrative and body through one hundred distinct calligraphy works. All media, instruments and objects were literally sacrificed on the altar of Writing.
This unprecedented hybrid of Literature and Contemporary Art will be presented in its entirety, for the first time, at the Eric Dupont gallery. Printed in a non-commercial and limited edition, the entire novel will be offered as a certificate of authenticity to every acquirer of one of those 100 鈥檖ages鈥�.
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St茅phane Zagdanski's new autobiographical novel, RARE, relates the life and thoughts day by day of a Parisian man of letters obsessed by a question: 鈥榃hat is writing鈥�. In this way, RARE is the diary of a writing process.
This story, which starts in English and continues in French, relates its own transformation all along the conception and the extraordinary redaction of 鈥楥haos Br没lant鈥�. However, RARE doesn鈥檛 simply describe a metamorphosis, it is the metamorphosis itself.
鈥業 was about to write by hand a novel which would describe a writer鈥檚 inner life. I was about to make tangible the thoughts of a man dedicated to writing. A man who would decide, after having consecrated an entire novel to the nihilist destruction of the world, to save his own writing in a Noah鈥檚 Ark of Art, made of the paintings this story would be written on.鈥�
RARE, page 99
Indeed, RARE spreads out its narrative and body through one hundred distinct calligraphy works. All media, instruments and objects were literally sacrificed on the altar of Writing.
This unprecedented hybrid of Literature and Contemporary Art will be presented in its entirety, for the first time, at the Eric Dupont gallery. Printed in a non-commercial and limited edition, the entire novel will be offered as a certificate of authenticity to every acquirer of one of those 100 鈥檖ages鈥�.
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