The poet René Char explains his conception of inspiration in a short unpublished correspondence published by a new magazine, Magma, which claims to be a "place of dialogue between artists and writers". This magazine (bilingual French-English), whose number 1 comes out with 2,000 copies Thursday, is inspired by "the tradition of the great art magazines of the twentieth century". "We tried, with the rights holders, to obtain unpublished works or very little seen, and to give the reader original dialogues," explained to AFP its creator, Paul Olivennes.
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Thus the magazine delivers the correspondence between the author of Feuillets d'Hypnos and his goddaughter, Angélique Berès, the mother of Paul Olivennes. She was 22 years old when she asked the poet in 1982: "How do words come to you?" The magazine gives, among other things, a facsimile of the envelope and the letter with which René Char replies. "As tears come to the eyes and then are born and rush, words do the same," he begins. This writer has many declared admirers, including President Emmanuel Macron or Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke.
The magazine Magma, in very large format hardcover covered with canvas and a price of 60 euros, must according to its founder "offer readers works at the price of an exhibition catalog". This issue 1 also contains photographs by Agnès Varda and Sophie Calle, or a commentary by Erri De Luca on photos of another Italian in Paris in the 1970s, Luigi Ghirri.