in JLG/JLG Godard shows us himself reading from Wittgenstein's On Certitute
and Diderot's Letter on the Blind. In each case he reads an extract and
closes the book, so it isn't quite the complete experience you're asking for
(but then Karina watching Passion in Vivre sa vie is not that either).
Also in JLG/JLG he reads from Julien Green's Adrienne Mesurat, closes the
book and says something like 'the last words of Adrienne Mesurat'. That's
more like it, I suppose.
As you know, people read all the time in Godard, but not to a close. An
exception is in Vivre sa vie, the Young Man (using Godard's voice) reading
Poe's The Purloined Letter.
will post more pertinent isntacens when they occur
Roland-François Lack
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