La bibliothèque parisienne de l’intellectuel québécois

I acquired a library that had belonged to a Quebec academic trained in Paris in the 1960s and 70s. Through old books, annotations, invoices, and rare journals, I attempt to reconstruct the "Parisian library of the Quebec intellectual" and reflect on the relationship between Marxism, bibliophilia, memory, and the transmission of books. Between booksellers on the quays, the fast pace of trade, and the slower pace of history, this video also becomes a meditation on the fate of libraries after the death of their owners.