Fatras. Avec cinquante-sept images composées par l’auteur
Fatras belongs to Jacques Prévert’s late, free-form books, where poem, note, wordplay and visual montage constantly intersect. The title already announces a deliberate disorder: a heap of fragments, finds, voices and visual inventions that together form a recognisably Prévertian world. Its particular interest lies in the 57 black-and-white images composed by Prévert himself, so that the poet also appears here as an image-maker. These collages are not mere additions to the text, but part of the same method of collision, surprise and poetic disruption. The book was published in 1966 by Gallimard/NRF in the Le Point du Jour series. This copy also has the character of a service de presse copy and bears Prévert’s inscription to Monsieur Perset. It therefore gains, beyond its place in Prévert’s printed oeuvre, an immediate personal presence.
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Prévert, Jacques
Fatras. Avec cinquante-sept images composées par l’auteur
1966 | Paris | Gallimard (NRF)
Fatras is a key book for understanding Prévert not only as a poet of popular lines, but also as a maker of images and montages. This copy adds a personal trace to the first edition through its service de presse character and inscription. The result is a lively and tangible Prévert object from his late creative period.
Fatras belongs to Jacques Prévert’s late, free-form books, where poem, note, wordplay and visual montage constantly intersect. The title already announces a deliberate disorder: a heap of fragments, finds, voices and visual inventions that together form a recognisably Prévertian world. Its particular interest lies in the 57 black-and-white images composed by Prévert himself, so that the poet also appears here as an image-maker. These collages are not mere additions to the text, but part of the same method of collision, surprise and poetic disruption. The book was published in 1966 by Gallimard/NRF in the Le Point du Jour series. This copy also has the character of a service de presse copy and bears Prévert’s inscription to Monsieur Perset. It therefore gains, beyond its place in Prévert’s printed oeuvre, an immediate personal presence.
€380
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Format
In-12 (Duodecimo) approx. 17 × 22 cm
Edition Particulars
One of 3,100 numbered copies; the colophon records 100 hors-commerce copies numbered 3001–3100. This copy is a service de presse copy with inscription: “Pour Monsieur Perset / Jacques Prévert”.
Print Run
3100
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Envoi
Product DETAIL
Fatras is not a continuous story, but a broad gathering of poems, short texts, sayings, scenes, wordplay and visual montages. Prévert brings together everyday observation, memory, social criticism, love, childlike wonder and black humour. The reader moves from brief verbal discoveries to longer poetic passages, from playful aphorisms to images carrying sharper political or existential charge. The collages interrupt and intensify this movement: they juxtapose disparate elements just as the language itself creates unexpected connections. The structure is deliberately fragmentary and follows no classical narrative, but a rhythm of association and contrast. The book presents Prévert as a poet of the street, the theatre, chance and the clash between tenderness and refusal.
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