Anna Staritsky

(1908 - 1981)

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Michel Butor

Une chanson pour Don Juan

A song for Don Juan

Veilhes: Gaston Puel, 1973

380 x 145 mm. 36 pages

Edition: 35. Copy nr. 8/35

The French writer and poet Michel Butor (born 1926) got the idea for this poem from Anna Staritsky, who wanted them to make a book together. For their combined project Butor choose the subject of a Don Juan and wrote 40 stances that Staritsky put on pages that had holes in it, that were twice or three times folded and that had various colours. A complex, almost architectural book that also was published as a poster (№ 10612). This copy has a handwritten poem by Butor and an original gouache by Staritsky

References:

Penaranda 1992, nr. 33

GRM 2000, p. 268

2016 Eindhoven VAM, № 46