Roger Caillois

Roger Caillois, la lecture des pierres

This book presents the most beautiful stones in the collection of minerals that Roger Caillois bequeathed to the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle de Paris, as well as the re-edition of the famous texts Stones, The Writing of Stones, and Paradoxical Agates.

 

A man of letters and a companion to the surrealist movement, at a very young age Roger Caillois became interested in the mineral world, whose forms evoked imaginary figures to him. From the 1950s onwards, he started to collect minerals from all over the world, “curious stones that attract attention owing to some anomaly in their shape or some meaningful oddity in design or colour”. All of them have “an unexpected resemblance, one that is improbable and yet natural, which provokes fascination”.

 

Agates, marcasite, quartz, jasper...They are like so many fragments of the universe, of a world in which dream and poetry draw analogies with the plant and animal worlds, but also with that of humans.

Roger Caillois, la lecture des pierres
La lecture des pierres
La lecture des pierres
La lecture des pierres
La lecture des pierres
La lecture des pierres
La lecture des pierres
La lecture des pierres
La lecture des pierres
La lecture des pierres
La lecture des pierres
Roger Caillois

Roger Caillois, la lecture des pierres

59,00 €

This book presents the most beautiful stones in the collection of minerals that Roger Caillois bequeathed to the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle de Paris, as well as the re-edition of the famous texts Stones, The Writing of Stones, and Paradoxical Agates.

 

A man of letters and a companion to the surrealist movement, at a very young age Roger Caillois became interested in the mineral world, whose forms evoked imaginary figures to him. From the 1950s onwards, he started to collect minerals from all over the world, “curious stones that attract attention owing to some anomaly in their shape or some meaningful oddity in design or colour”. All of them have “an unexpected resemblance, one that is improbable and yet natural, which provokes fascination”.

 

Agates, marcasite, quartz, jasper...They are like so many fragments of the universe, of a world in which dream and poetry draw analogies with the plant and animal worlds, but also with that of humans.

Hardcover

19 x 25,3 cm

432 pages

150 color photographs

Photographs

François Farges

MNHN

Texts

Roger Caillois

Massimiliano Gioni, preface

Gian Carlo Parodi, MNHN, lexicon

Henri-Jean Schubnel, afterword

With the collaboration of the National Museum of Natural History, Paris

Link to the video

ISBN : 978-2-36511-057-0

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