Les désordres de la bibliothèque

Photomontages suivi de La bibliotheca obscura de W.H.F. Talbot

Les désordres de la bibliothèque

Photomontages suivi de La bibliotheca obscura de W.H.F. Talbot
Les désordres de la bibliothèque a set of manual photomontages of private and public bookcases. He is accompanied with a preliminary of Christian Prigent and with a try on the first photography published by bookcase realized by W.H.F. Talbot in 1844. What is the sense of an image of bookcase otherwise to be the intimate portrait of a reader and the mapping(cartography) of its ramblings? In the era of the digital technology and against an academic vision of the reading, the work asks: to read what today?

Doctor of the EHESS, Muriel Pic (born 1974) teaches French literature at the University of Neuchâtel. Researcher associated with CRIA and CMB, she has conducted research on the literary editing at the Free University of Berlin. Besides numerous articles she published Le Désir monstrePoétique de Pierre Jean Jouve (Le Felin, 2006) and directed the edition of Pierre Jean JouveLettres à Jean Paulhan (Éditions Claire Paulhan, 2006).