{"id":3662,"date":"2010-05-15T21:08:34","date_gmt":"2010-05-16T02:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=3662"},"modified":"2010-05-15T21:08:34","modified_gmt":"2010-05-16T02:08:34","slug":"the-rimbaldian-pleasures-of-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/the-rimbaldian-pleasures-of-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rimbaldian Pleasures of Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"An afternoon spent walking the streets of Paris, stopping every so often in a bookshop, then walking on for awhile until the temptation is too much & I have to sit on the terrace of a caf\u00e9 (first afternoon this was possible: some sun & a near-human temperature) & start reading one of the books just bought. Today’s books include Pierre Guyotat’s Arri\u00e8re-Fond<\/em><\/strong> (the second installment of his autobiography), Abdelkebir Khatibi’s Le scribe et son ombre<\/em><\/strong>, and a volume of essays on Derrida in\/and Algeria<\/strong><\/em>, edited by Mustapha Ch\u00e9rif<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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And then this pleasure: a bookshop window full of Rimbauds \u2014 new editions, reissues, CDs of his work read by famous actors, full editions of the poems reproduced from manuscripts, last letter collections, etc. One of the books (see photos) \u2014 purporting to be the “Posthumous Correspondence” (shades of Spicer’s Lorca, though this is more spoof than serious poetry) has the fake photo on the cover I ran on Nomadics<\/a> a few weeks back.<\/p>\n

\"\"After which I met up with friends Habib Tengour and Eric Sarner (who is making a documentary on the great Algerian poet Jean S\u00e9nac) for ap\u00e9ritifs. Eric also told of his participation in a poetry festival in Iraq last month\u2014an amazing adventure he has documented in a text I would love to have the time to translate, at least in part. (Will try to do so soonish, meanwhile you can read the text in French here<\/a>, on the Riveneuve – Continents<\/strong> blog).<\/p>\n

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