In nearly fifty years of existence, the “Bouquins” collection has carved out a unique place for itself in the publishing world: combining intellectual rigor with freedom of tone and approach, it tirelessly explores all fields of knowledge and creation, often going against the grain of official trends or institutional biases. The chapter that opens today with the launch of “Les Singuliers” aims to further explore this path of curiosity and audacity. Born out of a desire to shed new light on the exceptional “Bouquins” collection and make it available to a new audience, “Les Singuliers” aims to explore the hundreds of thousands of pages published in “Bouquins,” where countless treasures lie, sometimes forgotten, to retain what has always made it successful: little-known classics, unpublished historical or literary essays, critical apparatus of unparalleled richness…
Among the first titles to be published in October, Une histoire de la mode by Olivier Saillard traces, decade by decade, the evolution of clothing and major haute couture trends from the 1900s to the present day, while sketching portraits of all the great designers. Taken from Le Bouquin de la mode (2019), the text will be completely revised for its re-release and expanded with several new chapters covering the 18th and 19th centuries, as well as the 2020s.
Other “Singuliers” to be published in October: Pierre Louÿs, Poésie érotique ; La Table ronde et le roi Arthur. Récits du Moyen Âge ; François Rabelais, Pantagruel.
