Written in Stone: Minerals collected and described by Roger Caillois

Roger Caillois’ extraordinary collection of stones is illustrated along with texts that trace his profile as an eclectic and atypical intellectual.

Even though they belong to the mineral kingdom, the stones in the collection of the French writer Roger Caillois appear miraculously similar to works of art. Beginning from this mysterious but captivating link between two such apparently distant universes, the book collects a carefully curated selection of the finest stones in the collection and ...