LE SAVON
€570.00
Original edition of Ponge’s emblematic *Le Savon*, issued by NRF in 1967. In this luxurious binding by Miguet, Ponge’s attention to material is literally framed: box calf as skin, balsa as structure. The octavo scale keeps reading intimate and exact, matching his prose-poetic dissection of the everyday. The text unfolds in brief, precise segments that make soap a speaking object. The binding is modern and spare, accenting conceptual clarity without rhetoric. This copy comes from a small *hors commerce* group on bouffant paper—reserved for author and circle. A fine instance of thinking description becoming a tactile book-object.
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Ponge, Francis
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LE SAVON
1967 | Paris | Nrf Gallimard
A rare distillation of Ponge’s thought in a spare artist’s binding: clear, tactile, precise.
Original edition of Ponge’s emblematic *Le Savon*, issued by NRF in 1967. In this luxurious binding by Miguet, Ponge’s attention to material is literally framed: box calf as skin, balsa as structure. The octavo scale keeps reading intimate and exact, matching his prose-poetic dissection of the everyday. The text unfolds in brief, precise segments that make soap a speaking object. The binding is modern and spare, accenting conceptual clarity without rhetoric. This copy comes from a small *hors commerce* group on bouffant paper—reserved for author and circle. A fine instance of thinking description becoming a tactile book-object.
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*Le Savon* studies soap as thing, metaphor, and process. Ponge describes foam, scent, attrition, and transformation, tying chemistry to language. Sentences buff the object until it “speaks”; definitions are tested and reprised. The structure is cyclical—hand, water, surface recur. Humour and exactness balance, giving the everyday a sharp philosophical edge.
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