Abstract
The voice of the narrator in François Truffaut’s L’Homme qui aimait les femmes (The Man Who Loved Women, 1977) summarizes the happenings of that film in a little poem, which Gilles Jacob and Claude de Givray, long-time compatriots and collaborators of Truffaut’s, choose as a concluding epigraph to their collection of his Letters. Posed modestly against a portrait of the filmmaker, which bears the caption, “François Truffaut died in hospital on 21 October 1984,” it reads:
Out of all of that,
something
nevertheless will remain,
a trace,
a testament,
a rectangular object,
320 bound pages.
What we call a book.
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Pomerance, M. (2012). “Antoine Doinel, Antoine Doinel, Antoine Doinel”: François Truffaut’s “Trilogy”. In: Perkins, C., Verevis, C. (eds) Film Trilogies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230371972_13
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