Two Members of the Family

They are two "transparents," as Octavio Paz would say; two "laughers," I would say. One is Henri-Pierre Roch, of the same generation as his friend Marcel Duchamp, departed from the land of the living for forty years now, the author of Jules et Jim and Deux anglaises et le continent, on whom Franois Truffaut would confer a certain notoriety by adopting him (for fathers can also be adopted). The other is Jean Suquet, still very much alive and still laughing, a reporter-photographer as he defines himself, having devoted his eye and pen since the very beginning to the apprehension of the work of Marcel Duchamp. 1 What's funny is that all three resemble each other physically. Not only in their shared concern for elegance, with the necessary dose of the casual, but even in the features of these three very sophisticated faces, ironic yet empty of malice, disabused and attentive. It's a family thing

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