Published September 28, 2003 by aanews | (Be the first to comment)
t seems to us that in this book artist Sam Samore and “failed” NY poet Max Henry have made a case study of the French poet Mallarmé’s UN COUP DE DÉS JAMAIS N’ABOLIRA LE HASARD. Sam had some dice made up with words engraved on them (love, fear, with , lust, etc.) instead of numbers and Max made phrases by tossing them. Their Case study pretends to scientific objectivity, but in fact they take Mallarmé’s sense of serendipity quite literally. Too bad they haven’t (yet?) developed an interest in the Marquis de Sade. They might take Justine for a life-style recommendation. But for now they prefer surrealism to sadism.
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his work is the first edition of La Méthodologie de la nouvelle écriture africaine “bété” by Frédéric Bruly Bouabré. It won’t interest anyone already fluent in bété. It will hold even less interest for those who don’t intend to learn this language. If there is anyone, however, who finds that the facsimile of a Toyota agenda containing the so-called “methodology” makes for a great book, he/she will hereby assuredly be thrilled. This book is as beautiful and as strange in its way as the stones on which Frédéric received the revelation of his universal aphabet. Even more so when you think that, as soon as you’ve finished reading, he has convinced you that Toyota actually means something in “bété”.
