by Marina Pino
Unlike collector, which holds for treasure, the specialist chooses only the works necessary for their work, ignoring the trash and the amount how happy are the first. Among the works that the specialist should have no excuse Casanova is the legendary edition in twelve volumes of the Memoirs de La Sirène, Paris 1924-1935, which is sometimes found in bookstores at ludicrous prices, incomplete or volumes broken, or missing at all.
For my work on Casanova, I had to crawl by libraries and archives, suffering the modern torture painless way constitute its rules, a compendium of prohibitions, restrictions and injustices that seem designed by a bibliomaniac ready to defend his treasure swashbuckling any foreign curiosity. The twelve volumes distilled volume by volume, the secular rate of reserve rooms without further working tool than a pen as mine runs out or breaks and a few pages, under the watchful eye of the jailer on duty.
time Let's go to Casanova and absolute counterpart, the Marquis de Sade. Seven years, seven, my quest has lasted, persecution and hunting of the third volume of the biography of the Marquis, Jean-Jacques Pauvert, under the generic title Sade vivant. The first was purchased in 2000 in the library Lance Gilbert Jeune, from the Place Saint Michel in Paris, because the issue had for many years. The second volume was found in the same library and charity two years later, quite dirty, but full. Which has resisted the truth has been the third, which chronicles the historic release of Sade in the Bastille and his enthusiastic introduction to the Revolution (after loss of his novel The one hundred twenty days of Sodom , collection of soil by a revolutionary and ended in time in the hands of the typical Swiss collector. Sade bitterly regretted the loss all his life. He had been writing in secret, small pieces of paper that was sticking on a continuous roll in the manner of a roll of toilet paper, hiding in a box and never recovered. Today is a literary landmark and a premonition of mass production that would come later. Car or for pleasure, it matters).
Seven years of research and hopes to join the time of the release of Sade with his allegiance to the section of Spades, one of the most extremist of revolutionary Paris.
This time, however, the volume has come from the Place Saint Martin, but a particular via the Internet. Why someone has exactly the third volume of his biography de Sade and not the three volumes, or the first, which is what we bought them all before realizing that we are not interested to bear the whole lot? The important thing is that the individual had the mythical third. The price dropped, postage included from Paris. The book, in paperback, clean, but with the tail so parched that will defoliate as I bury myself in the fascinating facts of Count Marquis Donatien François de Sade Aldonse now become a Citizen Sade to dry, forcing me to take rushed to saddle in the middle reading.
not matter because, even with twenty years late, just arrived, also via internet, the legendary edition of La Sirène with Memoirs of Casanova. Edit highly acclaimed at the time because it contained an important critical apparatus and a profusion of illustrations, all very useful for Casanova of the time, waiting to know the real Casanova's original, which was not published until 1960, 162 years after the death of the Venetian! It is that the siren could not publish more than the rewritten version, doctored and censored Jean Laforgue made to the publisher Brockhaus of Leipzig, then in Weisbaden, owner of the original manuscript but, as I say, with significant added materials.
Siren also very dry to be a mermaid, if I get the joke. Creaks and threatens to spread in convenient booklets, but restoring it would double its price, which would be the bargain it is. Best left on display as an object of worship and more than exceeded but insurmountable.
I return, then, Sade restored by three euros to continue, with the help of Pauvert most devout and erudite, with the story of the man who was "thrown up" by all schemes under which they lived, outside the Old Regime, the Bonapartism revolution or, more to his writing that facts or specific offenses and prosecutable. Pauvert vision of which is fine because it lies between the San Sade of the Surrealists and the Infernal Sade of Catholics, which is certainly true is closer to Sade.
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