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XAVIER BARRAL Roger Caillois - Les Pierres: Pierres ; L'écriture des pierres ; Agates paradoxales

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Editions Xavier Barral La Lecture des Pierres Roger Caillois Préface de Massimiliano Gioni Homme de lettres et compagnon du mouvement surréaliste, Roger Caillois s'intéresse très tôt au monde minéral dont les formes évoquent pour lui des figures de l'imaginaire. Dès les années 1950, il commence à collectionner des minéraux du monde entier, des " pierres curieuses, qui attirent l'attention par quelque anomalie de leur forme ou par quelque bizarrerie significative de dessin ou de couleur ". Toutes possèdent " une ressemblance inattendue, improbable et pourtant naturelle, qui provoque la fascination ". Agates, pyrites, quartz, jaspe. elles sont autant de fragments de l'univers, d'un monde où rêve et poésie dessinent des analogies avec le monde végétal et animal mais aussi avec celui des hommes. Cet ouvrage présente les 150 plus belles pierres de la collection de minéraux que Roger Caillois a léguée au Muséum national d'histoire naturelle de Paris, ainsi que la réédition des célèbres textes Pierres, L'Ecriture des pierres et Agates pardoxales. Pour la première fois sera dévoilée une collection exceptionnelle créée par l'un des plus grands poètes du xxe siècle. Roger Caillois (1913-1978)Alors qu'il est élève de l'Ecole normale supérieure, Roger Caillois rencontre avec André Breton et se lie d'amitié à la même époque avec Salvador Dalí, Paul Eluard, Max Ernst, René Char. Mais il rompt avec le groupe surréaliste dès 1935. Cofondateur, avec Georges Bataille et Michel Leiris, en 1938, du Collège de sociologie, Caillois rencontre la femme de lettres Victoria Ocampo, qui l'invite à séjourner chez elle en Argentine durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Il dirigera ensuite l'Institut français de Buenos Aires avant de lancer la revue Les Lettres françaises. De retour en France, il anime chez Gallimard la collection La Croix du Sud, spécialisée dans la littérature sud-américaine faisant découvrir l'oeuvre de Pablo Neruda ou de Miguel Angel Asturias, et traduit les nouvelles fantastiques de Jorge Luis Borges. Poète, essayiste, Roger Caillois a publié une oeuvre prolixe, ses livres parlent de la guerre, du rêve, de la poésie, des mythes, de l'imaginaire...

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