The book in the pocket
"Finding myself destitute, I made her pockets, which have found a book and, through him, all the richness of human thought" and could begin a tale of modern times. I am a pauper and has virtually nothing, I'm hungry but can not access the food to which I aspire, one found in the pages of books whose intimidating me away both the emptiness of my purse that my natural shyness, that of those not accustomed to mingle with all kinds of treats. But here, the object appeared to me familiar, friendly, somewhat crumpled, dog-eared, stained.
He had already served many, pocket bag, changing hands in the early morning on the subway, to fool waiting on the station platform, accompanying the sandwich on the bench during recess meridian. The moisture of the palms had left prints, maybe it was the hallmark of a tear. Me too, after so many others, have turned over, and then played absently with passion soon "object" under a hundred ...
Like Alice's looking glass, I then went into another world, passions and impulses, and of possible conquests, tragedies and elk. The latter took me out of me, unless they have shown me the true path of me that I need to take me up. Hands in pockets evoke idleness, the paperback is a promise, it is beacon showing the way and guide, to lose as well as to navigate, it is the form ancillary qu'emprunte sometimes life itself same.
I pointed to the pockets do not die, I grabbed the book skilful in concealing its splendor under the guise of insignificance, I lived, I'm lying like a magic carpet, it m led him far from his home in his world, that of the humble magnificence of the human spirit.
A weekend of June in Saint-Maur ........
Editorial by Axel KAHN
This summer event essential literature in paperback, has this year, a sponsor of exception: Axel Kahn, who succeeds Helene Carrere d'Encausse, sponsor of the 2010 edition. Avid player of great causes and scientist involved in public debates essential, Axel Kahn, director of research at INSERM (National Institute of Health and Medical Research) and President of the University Paris-Descartes, is also illustrated as a committed writer, aware of the issues of his day.
Axel Kahn will inaugurate the show Saturday, June 18 at 11 am and will participate in two panel discussions in the Literary Café. It will close the show with the ceremony of fingerprints with the godmothers 2009, 2010, Sunday, June 19 to 17 h.
