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"Twenty lithographs for a book I read," Jean Genet, Roland Caillaux, 1945

It is hard to imagine that there is a little over 70 years, it was almost impossible to get the picture very free, that is pornographic, two men making love. We are now so accustomed to this wave of erotic images that can barely get under the skin of the amateur who had the chance to get some pictures very raw where you could see gender erect , ejaculation, sodomy, ...



The same scarcity was probably a stimulus for these images are neat and beautiful accompanying text. The book I present today is simultaneously a work of art, which combines text, image and typography and a beautiful presentation, with a work in which we find erotic image erotic in the rough.



We do not know who was behind this printed collection in April 1945 when the war was coming to an end. With 19 poems and texts attributed to Jean Genet, Roland Caillaux has represented men, often a little thugs doing love, since the approach, foreplay, scenes of tenderness, to the scenes eroticism, pleasure, then rest.

is not known for earlier work to it that is so erotic. If I wanted to express this in a scholarly, I would say that this is an early printed literature illustrated gay ( incunabula: printed book dating from the early years of printing (before 1500) or by extension, a book of the early years of print homosexual).

These lithographs, with a selection of poems


Transparent traveler windows of the thicket By road
blood back into my mouth
Fingers responsible for the moon and not awake
beat I hear the evening asleep on my couch.


Canaille dare you bite me again
Remember that I am the Monarch of the page
You drive under my hand like a flood in my boat
Your swell fills me , my quail woods

My quail wrapped, crushed beneath my fingers.






Dead. Strangled. O flower of our country
Let your tears on her hips
holly blue tits your nests have them on his neck
And you, my nights are wearing the Golden DIVINE


raucous night vomiting scrapes this side of Sloth
Clichy and ill subjects
Where her lips pursed the furtive meeting
Forget his throat blonde arms of another jet.




The poems are generally attributed to Jean Genet, but he never wanted to acknowledge paternity. However, a number of them will then be included in Parade, published in the collection Poems, published by the the Crossbow in 1948. Other poems, never published elsewhere in this book can be attributed to Jean Genet in style and theme. In the preface itself, we find the spirit of Jean Genet at the time:

is feared and brutal eroticism hopefully. We open these pages and the most tender love you seized the heart, warms and the ice by his funeral banners.
The flesh is sad. Despite the luxury, light, faces, torsos and legs, the most tragic sweetness these drawings are bereaved, that should be though they are fed by the despair of a talented painter sorry. This mysterious expression, flush the line, a great evil in the artist himself would touch me. For the first time we are in front of drawings that tell us again, by the looks behind the scenes, grace a little bit of a soft rather than a loop, and even velvety shadows, tal of these children, which the artist used to confess with shame feel less worthy of the world hates the inversion: tenderness.
from the least gesture of the finger twirling a loop, the shock sensitivity of a knee against another knee, a smile I am gratified , churn the waves of love certainly, but also the most desperate sweetness. The worst artist in an apparent frivolity sadness we learned of these loves, and especially the sadness of sweetness and tenderness itself. Finally, by a miracle that only nature can succeed a deeply tragic, it shows the injury of these bodies, despite their beauty, their strength and glorious immodesty. Their beauty is the same injury that sings love. The tenderness of these kids, it's great ulcer on his face, revealing the strange disease of the artist. That by which we love so much love.

Beyond these award debate, we are in the world of Jean Genet. In 1943, appeared clandestinely Our Lady of the Flowers . The characters, atmosphere, situations occur within twenty lithographs. The world is Divine. Even if the public release of the book had to wait for 1948, the scholars of the time, likely recipients of the comic, already knew Jean Genet and his universe. For those who doubt, Jean Genet itself is represented in his cell, writing Our Lady of the Flowers .


This quote from Jean Genet Our Lady of the Flowers : "For me books they never will be anything but a pretext to show a soldier dressed in blue, an angel Fraternal and be playing dice and bones in a prison dark or light? "Is not this beautifully illustrated by lithography?


Finally on references to Genet's universe, all those who know the beautiful "Song of Love" can only be struck by some similarities between the two worlds.


The allocation of lithographs at Roland Caillaux is generally accepted. We know regrettably little about the illustrator former movie actor. He belonged to the world of Gay Paris which revolved around Jean Cocteau and Jean Genet in the 1940s. It John also found Boullet Maurice Sachs, Francois Sentein, etc.. However, none of the biographies on these individuals does not cite Roland Caillaux. Some information gleaned
:
"mysterious painter, his studio was located rue Boulard, in the fourteenth.
This annuitant, heir of wealthy parents, lived in rue de l'Ancienne Comedie.
He turned a movie the role of an officer of Spahis, and was a hobby, skating and drawing.
He illustrated the "20 lithographs for a book I read" by Jean Genet.
STORY: it moved to bicycle and went to Jean Cocteau, rue Montpensier, the bicycle pump in hand, for fear of being robbed! (Francis Sentein) "
(Source: Gallery happiness of the day )

He was also a film actor. Her filmography:
- The gallery of monsters , 1924, Jacques Cates:
- Tire flank , 1928, Jean Renoir: Sergeant
- Figaro, 1929, Tony Lekain and Gaston Ravel: Avian Sun
- Creek , 1929, Rene Hervil
- Let gays , 1930, Arthur Robison
- The Mask of Hollywood , Clarence G. Badger and John Daumery Bing
- Baroud, 1932 by Rex Ingram and Alice Terry Andre Duval - Sergeant Spahi
- Itto, 1934, Jean Benoit-Levy and Marie Epstein (co-director) : Lieutenant Jean Dumontier
(Source: IMDB)

According to a Russian website (click here ), he was born around 1900 and died in Paris around 1975. He reportedly used the pseudonym Roland Caipland.

Description of structure

Twenty lithographs for a book I read
Paris, 1945, 4to (328 x 255 mm) [88] pp., 20 lithographic plates, blankets flaps printed in black and orange.



is a collection of free double sheets, not numbered. The texts are on the first page of each sheet, the lithographs on the third page. The backs are white.

This collection was printed in 115 numbered copies on Velin de Rives. He is No. 80.





We find traces of some Additional copies:
- Jacques Desse proposed a copy with an original drawing.
- erotic Gérard Nordmann Library - 2 nd part (Paris, Christie's, 14 and 15/12/2006): No. 52
- "A private hell - Collection and Sieglinde Karl Ludwig Leonhardt, Paris, Pierre Bergé , 12/03/2009: 6.
- Marcel Lamazerolles: No. 80

But there is no example in public libraries in France, even at the Bibliotheque Nationale de France.

This book has been reissued by the Gay books Kitsh Camp Gender Issues, No. 33, Lille, 1996. The reproductions are unfortunately not up to the original, but this reissue contains an introduction by Patrick Cardon interesting about this book, which we borrowed some details of this message.

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