The Man-Joy

FIRST EDITION. One of 40 numbered copies on pure rag Malmeynade paper, the only large paper issue.

Christian Bobin was born in 1951 in Le Creusot, an industrial town in central France, where he still lives. His father was a draughtsman. After high school, which he does not remember fondly, Christian Bobin, who had been an avid reader since childhood, studied philosophy then worked at the Autun library and for a magazine. He quickly began publishing poetry and essays with various publishers, particularly Gallimard. Difficult to classify into a specific literary genre, his texts are like small paintings, poems, fragments of a diary... he admits to living in books and avoiding the literary scene.