Les Nonnes grises
BETTENCOURT (Pierre)
Sold by Librairie-Galerie Emmanuel Fradois, Paris, France
AbeBooks Seller since 19 June 2023
Used - Soft cover
Ships from France to U.S.A.
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Add to basketSold by Librairie-Galerie Emmanuel Fradois, Paris, France
AbeBooks Seller since 19 June 2023
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketL'AMANT DES FEMMES-CHAUVE-SOURIS In-12° (193 x 146 mm), 25 pp. ? [2] ff. ? [1] f. bl., broché, couverture rempliée. Édition originale du second des fantaisistes « voyages » de Pierre Bettencourt sur la « planète innomée ». Tirage limité à 250 exemplaires numérotés sur Arches (celui-ci le n°107). Les Nonnes grises reparaîtra en 1990 dans le recueil Voyage sur la planète innomée (imprimerie nationale) avec des illustrations de Dado, puis sera à nouveau édité séparément par RLD avec un frontispice d'Alechinsky. « On trouve ici quelques notes qui datent de mon second voyage sur la planète innomée. Elles concernent plus précisément une communauté que je n'avais fait qu'entrevoir lors de mon premier voyage et qui m'avait déjà fort intrigué, je veux parler des femmes-chauve-souris. Elles naissent le plus souvent dans des familles ordinaires et rien ne peut laisser d'abord prévoir la mutation dont elles vont être l'objet. Mais à l'âge de la puberté, leur peau se couvre d'un léger duvet gris, de larges surfaces membraneuses commencent à se développer entre le corps et les bras qui s'allongent démesurément, les mains prenant des proportions gigantesques, et elles revêtent peu à peu l'apparence qu'elles vont présenter adultes. Incapables de poursuivre leurs études, impropres aux tâches ménagères, [elles n'ont plus alors qu'à] rejoindre les communautés dont elles feront partie désormais. Nettement plus menues que les femmes de leur race, mais il semble plus intelligentes et plus vives, elles sont encore recherchées par les hommes pour la vénusité de leurs formes, et cette peau grise légèrement duvetée où le visage, les fesses et les seins totalement imberbes et d'un rose de bonbon fondant, ressortent avec évidence. » (pp. 9-10). Homme de lettres souvent associé à l'art brut, Pierre Bettencourt (1917-2006) fut également éditeur et typographe, publiant, en plus de ses propres oeuvres, des textes d'Artaud, Michaux, Ponge, Dubuffet. Il signa une abondante oeuvre littéraire placée sous le signe de la « facétie sérieuse » (Yves Peyré) ainsi qu'une multitude de sculptures-tableaux dits « hauts-reliefs ». Quelques salissures à la couverture, petit grignotage de rongeur au pli du rabat.
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