Salammbô.
Gallimard| N° d'inventaire | 23879 |
| Format | 25 x 32 |
| Détails | 332 p., publisher's hardcover. |
| Publication | Paris, 2021 |
| Etat | nine |
| ISBN | 9782072940774 |
"It was in Megara, a suburb of Carthage, in the gardens of Hamilcar." The first sentence of Salammbô, a novel by Gustave Flaubert published in 1862, marked the beginning of a unique experience for generations of readers. In a demiurgic attempt to restore the lost city, the writer stages human passions and gives birth to a whirlwind of images and sensations that will unleash the imagination of artists from the end of the 19th century to the present day. Painters, sculptors, photographers, musicians, filmmakers, comic book authors: all seized upon Salammbô to transpose the words that Flaubert did not want to see illustrated. On the occasion of the bicentenary of the writer's birth, this book and the exhibition it accompanies undertake to reveal the considerable scope of this masterpiece of modern literature and its legacy in the history of the Mediterranean.
"It was in Megara, a suburb of Carthage, in the gardens of Hamilcar." The first sentence of Salammbô, a novel by Gustave Flaubert published in 1862, marked the beginning of a unique experience for generations of readers. In a demiurgic attempt to restore the lost city, the writer stages human passions and gives birth to a whirlwind of images and sensations that will unleash the imagination of artists from the end of the 19th century to the present day. Painters, sculptors, photographers, musicians, filmmakers, comic book authors: all seized upon Salammbô to transpose the words that Flaubert did not want to see illustrated. On the occasion of the bicentenary of the writer's birth, this book and the exhibition it accompanies undertake to reveal the considerable scope of this masterpiece of modern literature and its legacy in the history of the Mediterranean.