{"title":"SÉRIE RARE","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"rare-p-25","title":"RARE p. 25","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1088\/7154\/9267\/files\/SZ.RARE.25.jpg?v=1785318644\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSérie RARE page 25\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Garamond',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #0070c0;\"\u003e42 x 29,7 cm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Garamond',serif; color: #0070c0;\"\u003ePapier Keaykolour A 3 noir \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Garamond',serif; color: #0070c0;\"\u003ePorte-plume Standardgraph noir\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Garamond',serif; color: #0070c0;\"\u003ePlume Joseph Gillot 1950 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Garamond',serif; color: #0070c0;\"\u003eEncre J. Herbin recouvrante verte\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4 class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003ePhotographies non contractuelles, cadre inclus\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4 class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eTexte du tableau :\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 41.35pt 0cm 1.0cm;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Garamond',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"\u003eof the XX\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e century! I bought the French translation of Evans-Pritchard’s classic: \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eSorcellerie, oracles et magie chez les Azande\u003c\/i\u003e and I inhaled each sentence of it with pride and delight as if I was finally discovering the true spiritual\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eroots of my love. Each of these fabulous forgotten age-old rites was a piece of Vee’s inner crown: \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eMangu\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003ethe witchcraft substance; \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eNgua\u003c\/i\u003e, magic and medicines; \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eGira\u003c\/i\u003e, taboo; \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eSinu\u003c\/i\u003e, spell; \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eBenge\u003c\/i\u003e, poison oracle; \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eAbinzu\u003c\/i\u003e, witchdoctors; \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eMbisimo\u003c\/i\u003e, soul;\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eAtoro\u003c\/i\u003e, ghosts; \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eMbori\u003c\/i\u003e, superior being…\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 41.35pt 0cm 1.0cm;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Garamond',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"\u003eI realized particularly how intensely the life of my wife, thus mine, was surrounded by sorcery. I knew she was superstitious, like every African; I knew for instance how hard she was to convince to call on our good neighbours Proust and Balzac in Père-Lachaise cemetery, because nobody in Bangui would dare to confuse a cemetery with a parc; it made me smile when she cried out : “Heysee! Pardon!” because I was whistling a song at twilight as if I wanted to attract spirits, ghosts and demons all around. I smiled – I even was moved – when I discovered an amulet – a gri-gri made with a magic walnut sealed inside a small leather enveloppe – sewn into the lining of my jacket so no other woman could ever seduce me… All these magic plants, herbs, powders, bark shavings \u003cspan style=\"color: #c00000;\"\u003e\u0026lt;copeaux d’écorces\u0026gt;\u003c\/span\u003e and nuts were directly sent from Bangui with their precise instructions (how to boil, mix, swallow and apply) through DHL after hours of expensive mobile unending conversations with an expatriate\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003emarabout from Mali or Sénégal – not even a Zande! – whose name I was not allowed to know…\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 41.35pt 0cm 1.0cm;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Garamond',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"\u003e– Let me talk to your friend the sorcerer, darling, just once.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 41.35pt 0cm 1.0cm;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Garamond',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"\u003e– Why ? (shouted with an angry voice) Why do you want to mind my business ?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 41.35pt 0cm 1.0cm;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Garamond',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"\u003e– I would just like to tell your guy: “Stop duping my wife, you fucking crook!”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 41.35pt 0cm 1.0cm;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Garamond',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"\u003e– Heysee! Pardon!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Garamond',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003eVee knew very well I was teasing her, but still, she didn’t\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003elike me to watch her cooking and preparing her secret stuff in the kitchen. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cimg\u003e\u003cimg\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1088\/7154\/9267\/files\/20140930_162932.jpg?v=1785322347\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atelier Zagdanski","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54432561758547,"sku":null,"price":400.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1088\/7154\/9267\/files\/SZ.RARE.25.jpg?v=1785318644"},{"product_id":"rare-p-24","title":"RARE p.24","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1088\/7154\/9267\/files\/SZ.RARE.24.jpg?v=1785324986\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eSérie RARE page 24\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Garamond',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #0070c0;\"\u003e42 x 29,7 cm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Garamond',serif; color: #0070c0;\"\u003ePapier Keaykolour A 3 noir \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Garamond',serif; color: #0070c0;\"\u003ePorte-plume Standardgraph noir\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Garamond',serif; color: #0070c0;\"\u003ePlume Joseph Gillot 1950 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Garamond',serif; color: #0070c0;\"\u003eEncre J. Herbin recouvrante blanche\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4 class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003ePhotographies non contractuelles, cadre fourni\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4 class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eTexte du tableau :\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 41.35pt 0cm 1.0cm;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Garamond',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Garamond',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003e“The notion of Witchcraft explains unfortunate events”, p. 63-64, Oxford, at the Clarendon Press \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 41.35pt 0cm 1.0cm;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Garamond',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"\u003eYou probably ask yourself: “Why is he giving such an impromptu course about an unknown ethny dispersed over Congo, South Sudan and Central African Republic with the strange assistance of an august long dead professor – “M. A.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e(Oxon.), Ph. D. (London) Research Lecturer in African Sociology at the University of Oxford Sometime Professor of Sociology at the Egyptian University, Cairo” ? What is the purpose of that snobish blabla about these delirious anthropophagists from nowhere?”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 41.35pt 0cm 1.0cm;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Garamond',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"\u003eWell, the answer is simple: my lovely sexy spouse is one of them… So, now, you understand why my bizarre existence is incompatible with any other writer’s wandering between the Café de Flore and Les Deux Magots. Let’s get to my point: my point is that nobody wants to fuck around with a woman who has centuries of warrior spirit, cannibal habits and magic knowledge boiling through her veins! And no one would have convinced my Zande spouse that, when a malicious bitch from Bangui told\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eher that her womb was blocked with a concrete bolt, it was \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003enot\u003c\/i\u003e witchcraft! \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 41.35pt 0cm 1.0cm;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Garamond',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003eWhatever it was – a curse or a mockery –, it happened\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003ea couple of years after our wedding. At that time I was not aware of the deep magical background of my despairing spouse. It occurred to me only a few years ago, by chance, while I was reading with passion \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eThe Savage Mind\u003c\/i\u003e by Lévi-Strauss, in which he quotes\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eEvans-Pritchard about the sorcery thinking of the Azande. I was astonished. My wife’s ancestors were a matter of study for the most distinguished ethnologists\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Garamond',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1088\/7154\/9267\/files\/20160824_174042.jpg?v=1785325231\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atelier Zagdanski","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54433055277395,"sku":null,"price":400.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1088\/7154\/9267\/files\/SZ.RARE.24.jpg?v=1785324986"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1088\/7154\/9267\/collections\/SZ.RARE.25.jpg?v=1785324779","url":"https:\/\/atelier-zagdanski.myshopify.com\/collections\/serie-rare.oembed","provider":"Atelier Zagdanski","version":"1.0","type":"link"}