Michel Pastoureau: “I carved potatoes with André Breton”

The beautiful book Pink: story of a color by Michel Pastoureau was published on October 4 by Editions du Seuil.

News:
Michel Pastoureau will be signing on October 17 with Pierre Mabille at the Maison Julien Gracq from Mauges-sur-Loire and will present alone, on October 26, his work Pink: story of a color to the Kléber Bookstore from Strasbourg.

Excerpts broadcast:

• The book I remember (1978) by Georges Perec read by several actresses on France culture (2024)
• André Breton stating his definition of surrealism on Radio Canada in 1961 at the microphone of Judith Jasmin
• The song Roses Are Red (My Love) recorded by Bobby Vinton in 1962
• The movie Ivanhoe (1952) directed by Richard Thorpe
• The movie Perceval the Welsh (1978) directed by Éric Rohmer

Guest’s musical choice:
Michel Pastoureau makes us listen to the song I’m not old enough (1964) performed by Gigliola Cinquetti.

Guest discovery:
Michel Pastoureau advises us to go and sit in the Luxembourg Gardens, in Paris, and “observe, think, watch the rain fall, dream. What I have done several times a week since my early childhood…”

Musical programming:
Nail – Obviously
Michael Kiwanuka – The Rest of Me