Director Robert Wilson is dead

It was in June 1971. Therefore, Paris discovered The deaf look, by Robert Wilson, at the Théâtre de la Musique (the current Gaîté-Lyrique). In addition, Louis Aragon saw the show. Nevertheless, he wrote a letter to his friend André Breton, who had long joined the surrealist sky.

In this long upset letter. In addition, published in THE French lettershe remembers two walks director robert wilson dead that they made together, very young, in the 1910s. One, at the Tuileries, where Breton had said to him: “If we ever stop believing in the miracle …” The other. one day calm, in the square next to the Gaîté-Lyrique, precisely: “Listen to silence”, He said his friend this time. Sixty years later, Aragon replied: “Well, this is precisely where the miracle happened. Silence. (…) The world of a deaf child opened up to us like a silent mouth. More than four hours. we were going to live in this universe where, in the absence of words, sounds, sixty characters will only have words to move. I want to tell you right away. André, because, even if those who invented the show know nothing, it is for you that they play it, for you who would have liked it like me, madly. (…) I have never seen anything more beautiful director robert wilson dead in this world since I was born there. »»

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