Codex : In Search of Lost Time

vendredi 27 avril 2007

Luigi Serafini : Exhibition in Milano

For the 25th publication anniversary of the Codex, an exhibition of Luigi Serafini artwork is held in Milano, starting May 10th to June 17th.

Among various paintings made by Serafini, and hundred of the original Codex pages will be presented to the public, for the first time.

Coppia di Hirundòmani mostra all’autorità competente il permesso di soggiorno nel PAC, 2007

Links :

http://www.teknemedia.net/pagine-gialle/musei/pac_milano/dettaglio-mostra/21520.html
http://www.comune.milano.it/pac/index.html

Image gallery :

http://www.teknemedia.net/multimedia/galleria/21520/index.html
http://www.exibart.com/profilo/eventiV2.asp/idelemento/39348

mercredi 7 février 2007

In Search of Lost Time

The only readable text on the whole Codex are a few words in french on 2 plates in the 6th chapter " human (well.. seraphinian ?) anatomy, ethnology & anthropology "

On the first plate, the text is "fille orgiaq-ue surgie et devinée, le p-remier jour, s-ur la digue d-e Balbec".

A rapid search on a few digital librairies told me this quote comes from a book by the french writer Marcel Proust : "A la recherche du temps perdu : Albertine disparue" ( In Search of Lost Time : Albertine gone). In fact, the scattered words on the ground, also come from the following sentences in the same book, as shown on this image :

Later, I've been told that Cecilia Raba noticed this reference on her weblog ; she made a wonderful analysis on her post : "Una chiave per il Codex Seraphinianus".

In the second plate, the writer have been murdered, and a few other french words can be read on teared sheets of paper :

"statuaire .... liade-souven(ir?)... voici encore :", "...urel (naturel, surnaturel, culturel ?) yeux baissés"
I checked many online french books, but I have not been able to find any exact reference yet.

The whole text for Proust "Albertine disparue" can be found there :
http://pge.rastko.net/dirs/pge/pge06/100194/e100194.txt