Paul Auster Books

La Revue de Belles-Lettres no. 3–4, 1986: Jacques Dupin

Softcover on vélin d’Arches with a cream folded cover. French language. From a total print run of 1450 copies: 1350 ordinary and unnumbered, and 100 special editions (of those, 1–75 were hand numbered and contain signed engravings; 25 were hors d’commerce copies, reserved for collaborators, and hand numbered in Roman numerals, this being number III).
An issue dedicated to poet and critic Jacques Dupin with text from Delfina Provenzali (translated by Florian Rodari), Jean-Michel Reynard, André du Bouchet, Philippe Denis, Florian Rodari, Jean Tortel, Pierre-Alain Tâche, Philippe Jaccottet, Stephen Romer, François Zenone, John E. Jackson, Yves Bonnefoy, Michel Deguy, José-Miguel Ullàn (translated by Jacques Ancet), Jean Frémon, Pierre Chappuis, Edmond Jabès, Lothar Klünner (translated by Michel de Pauw), Nicholas Pesquès, Jean-Claude Mathieu, and Piero Bigongiari (translated by Benard Simeone). Paul Auster, who translated Dupin into English in his Living Hand edition entitled Fits and Starts, contributes an essay on p139 (translated by Philippe Denis). Artwork by Eduardo Chillida, Chu Ta, Alberto Giacometti, Joan Miró, Antoni Tápies, and Wang Hui. 10 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches. 200 pages (pagination ends at p196).
R.B.L.: Lausanne, 1986.

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