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The art of the book.
SUARÈS André.

The art of the book.

Fata Morgana
€13,00 €0,00
N° d'inventaire 25272
Format 12 x 17 cm
Détails 40 p., paperback.
Publication Saint Clement of the River
Etat Nine
ISBN 9782377920976
André Suarès, poet and writer born in Marseille in 1868, and from 1912 editor of La Nouvelle Revue française alongside Gide, Claudel and Valéry, is the author of the plural and abundant work that we know: collections of poems, studies, travel stories, tragedies, thoughts, aphorisms... A constant in the nebula formed by his writings, his burning words constantly question the whims of an era to the depths of the human soul. The art of the book is a eulogy to bookish beauty, to the incunabula and to the manuscript: the works are monuments. Suarès regrets the decadence of the book implied by its growing diffusion and, without lacking lucidity, anticipates the arrival of invasive substitutes in our lives, more suited to minds that are becoming lazy. An effective text, with controlled exacerbation, which we will address to the faithful of books, "the last men who are not mass-produced by the social machine."
André Suarès, poet and writer born in Marseille in 1868, and from 1912 editor of La Nouvelle Revue française alongside Gide, Claudel and Valéry, is the author of the plural and abundant work that we know: collections of poems, studies, travel stories, tragedies, thoughts, aphorisms... A constant in the nebula formed by his writings, his burning words constantly question the whims of an era to the depths of the human soul. The art of the book is a eulogy to bookish beauty, to the incunabula and to the manuscript: the works are monuments. Suarès regrets the decadence of the book implied by its growing diffusion and, without lacking lucidity, anticipates the arrival of invasive substitutes in our lives, more suited to minds that are becoming lazy. An effective text, with controlled exacerbation, which we will address to the faithful of books, "the last men who are not mass-produced by the social machine."