by Cortazar
Le Bestiaire D’Aloys Zotl, Julio Cortazar Texts (Book)
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Le Bestiaire D’Aloys Zotl, Julio Cortazar Texts (Book) In Box, Hardcover, Limited Edition 665/3000, Publishers Franco-Maria Ricci, Handmade Paper, Like New, Light Traces On Box, in French.
the bestiary of Aloys Zotl, 1831 1887. The 170 watercolors, dated and signed, works by the Austrian dyer Aloys Zötl form a slightly offbeat bestiary which was dispersed during sales to Drouot in 1955 and 1956. A few years later, armed with photographic reproductions, the publisher Franco Maria Ricci obtained Julio Cortázar the promise of a text on this bestiary.
The result is not a comment led step by step, but a long letter to the editor Ricci, interspersed with a series of personal memories related to the animal theme.
Cortazar is hardly talkative about Aloys Zötl’s watercolors; he believes that the artist was able to give fabulous power to the alliance of the imaginary and the tangible. Imagination, therefore, but without excess. But he really pays homage to another bestiary: “I think of the admirable 12th century Latin bestiary in Cambridge,” he wrote. Cortázar also evokes, incidentally, the bestiaries of comics, the creatures of Schulz and his delicious Snoopy. We will not really know what he prefers. But this commissioned essay has at least one merit, that of sketching the intellectual portrait of its fantastic author.
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