Piranesi.
Marguerite Waknine| N° d'inventaire | 23706 |
| Format | 15 x 21 |
| Détails | 64 p., notebook. |
| Publication | Angoulême, 2017 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9791094565209 |
We will surely never sufficiently recognize the unparalleled modernity of Charles Nodier. A lively, open, shimmering mind, overflowing with erudition, imperiously inventive, a researcher, without losing his taste for fantasy or, above all, that of the greatest freedom, Charles Nodier, whatever the field to which he devotes himself, is and remains a precursor, a decipherer, as he can still be here when he takes as his object a creator as curious and fascinating as Piranesi to write a strange tale, as learned as it is whirling, where the reader is carried away in the meanders of a reflection which never ceases to wrap itself in concentric circles around the work of Piranesi and its mystery. Perhaps we have here the most singular of the writings devoted to the famous Imaginary Prisons engraved by Piranesi in that it allows us to perceive this work as a sort of black hole (the black brain of Piranesi, as Victor Hugo wrote) which can only subjugate anyone who would have the audacity to want to approach it in some way.
We will surely never sufficiently recognize the unparalleled modernity of Charles Nodier. A lively, open, shimmering mind, overflowing with erudition, imperiously inventive, a researcher, without losing his taste for fantasy or, above all, that of the greatest freedom, Charles Nodier, whatever the field to which he devotes himself, is and remains a precursor, a decipherer, as he can still be here when he takes as his object a creator as curious and fascinating as Piranesi to write a strange tale, as learned as it is whirling, where the reader is carried away in the meanders of a reflection which never ceases to wrap itself in concentric circles around the work of Piranesi and its mystery. Perhaps we have here the most singular of the writings devoted to the famous Imaginary Prisons engraved by Piranesi in that it allows us to perceive this work as a sort of black hole (the black brain of Piranesi, as Victor Hugo wrote) which can only subjugate anyone who would have the audacity to want to approach it in some way.