Genèse et histoire éditoriale d’un manuscrit inconnu d’Aimé Césaire
On 18th May 2018 the Wren Library at Trinity College, Cambridge hosted the vernissage of the art book exhibit “Wifredo Lam: Livres d’artistes”. One of the display cases contained a surprise for the Césaire specialists present in Cambridge. On two sheets of Assemblée Nationale letterhead an unknown a...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Institut des textes & manuscrits modernes (ITEM)
2019-02-01
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| Series: | Continents manuscrits |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/coma/3305 |
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| Summary: | On 18th May 2018 the Wren Library at Trinity College, Cambridge hosted the vernissage of the art book exhibit “Wifredo Lam: Livres d’artistes”. One of the display cases contained a surprise for the Césaire specialists present in Cambridge. On two sheets of Assemblée Nationale letterhead an unknown autograph manuscript began : “Intense countries, where the creative force, never exhausted...”. At first glance, one might have taken it for an early draft of “Wifredo Lam and the Antilles”, which Cahiers d’art published under the title “Wifredo Lam” in its double issue (20-21) during the last trimester of 1946. However, the biobibliography edited by K. Véron and T. Hale in 2013 confirmed that this was the manuscript of Césaire’s contribution for the catalogue of Lam’s work exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts in Caracas, Venezuela, between 8th and 22nd May 1955. |
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| ISSN: | 2275-1742 |