Serge Gainsbourg - The introductory interview of “In the land of malices”.

Serge Gainsbourg (1928.1991)

Partly autograph typing.

Five pages in-4 °.

[Paris. 1980]

« I'm going to put in my last wishes: break my piano. »

Precious trials, very abundantly biffed, annotated and corrected by Serge Gainsbourg, preparatory to the long introductory interview with the Gainsbourg work. In the land of mischiefs published by Éditions Le Temps Singulier, on the initiative of Franck Lhomeau and Alain Coelho, in October 1980.

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An exciting plunge into the artist's universe on occasion this first great anthology to him devoted. Literary, musical and intimate subjects are successively discussed from Evguenie Sokolov to her lost love with Jane Birkin.

Did you have the impression, at least once, to deliver to your texts?

-No,… maybe in “Initials BB” and “I love you either” ”, it's a bit organic… organic… It's graphic.

Gainsbourg returns, with introspection, to his cult of beauty:

Perhaps it was my physical ugliness that made me look for aesthetics, aesthetics and the arrangement of objects in space in such a frantic way. A mental illness that I cultivate carefully.

Also on his literary loves:

I read and reread Baudelaire. I am no longer at the age when we read because I have no time to waste in course errors. So I reread. “The Daniel Defoë, Huysmans,“ Oil ”,“ A Rebours ”, Poe translated by Baudelaire, and Baudelaire and Rimbaud, that's all. I also reread, for the pleasure of the book because I have the original edition, Madame Bovary, in two volumes. Very pretty. I reread “Adolphe” too.

The interview ends on his love suffering and on death:

Nietzsche says somewhere that the great risk for man, man and his work is the woman, is to meet her living work. Is Jane Birkin a work for you?

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Do you think of your death?

I see my piano's lacquer very well shining another two hundred or three hundred years. I'm going to put in my last wishes: break my piano.

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Bibliography: Gainsbourg, in the land of mischiefs - pages 7 to 15 (éd. Le Temps Singulier).