(8/14) ... + Indigènes = 30 000 combattants d'une dizaine de nationalités (cf 1941 1943).
- Max-Paul Fouchet dirige la revue mensuelle littéraire Fontaine à Alger (cf 1936 1945), devenue depuis l'Occupation une des principales publications de la résistance intellectuelle, dont Louis #Aragon et #ReneChar.
- Ukraine : mort de > 100 000 citoyens juifs de Lviv #genocide #Holocause ..
#livres Les vierges et autres nouvelles d' #IrèneNémirovsky
I have a newsletter out today, announcing my return to the Los Angeles area. I have new offices for my manual therapy practice in Pasadena and Silverlake, and am finally ready to get back to work after a stressful move.
As usual, I've included some recommended reading: selections from the poet René Char (please pardon the crude and mostly unintended pun with the featured photograph).
Please enjoy and share if you like.
Paul Celan en 1967 :
« “Qu’un petit poète comme moi éprouve le besoin de rencontrer H********r, cela peut se comprendre, mais que Char, qui n’a rien à attendre de personne, éprouve le besoin de rencontrer ce philosophe douteux (je ne suis pas sûr de l’adjectif, peut-être était-ce ‘suspect’) m’étonne (ou ‘me choque’ ?) beaucoup.” »
#PaulCelan #ReneChar #philosophenazi #frenchpoetry
#heidegger
I published a newsletter today, reflecting on the Los Angeles wildfires, my impending move back to LA, and selections from the poet René Char.
Have a read:
https://wilsonshook.com/newsletter/2025/1/21/last-days-in-oakland-winter-garden-healing-arts
From Hypnos, by René Char.
Published in 1946, Hypnos was the French surrealist poet's diary of life on the Maquis, a leader of the underground French resistance. This is from the 2014 Mark Hutchinson translation.
I feel more held by this line than anything I've read recently. The idea that one might exist in pure relationality, in fleeting experience that is profoundly personal, but inherently exceeds individual subjectivity. The idea that relation and identification transcends not only species but taxonomy itself. It's also a queer, atheist sort of destiny, and it's quite humble.