ENS / CNRS - Institute for Modern Texts and Manuscripts
The Institute for Modern Texts and Manuscripts (ITEM) is a joint CNRS/ENS research unit dedicated to studying the genesis of intellectual works in literature, linguistics, philosophy, arts, and sciences, based on the empirical traces left behind during the creative process. To learn more about the unit's missions and history, see the pages Item – Thematic and Item – History.
ITEM has a document collection spread across the unit's two sites (ENS and Rue Pouchet) and consisting of several collections.
The documentation center at the CNRS's Pouchet site houses a collection of reference works on genetic criticism (including the seminal works) covering approximately 200 linear meters, as well as a wide selection of volumes on the authors most studied by the ITEM teams (Zola, Flaubert, Proust, Valéry, etc.). : complete works of authors, monographs, journals, critical studies, student work (master's theses, dissertations, theses) and offprints, as well as transcriptions of manuscripts and other work and various documents produced by the laboratory's teams.
The collections located at the ENS on Rue d'Ulm focus more specifically on the following authors: Proust, Joyce, Sartre, and Valéry, as well as autobiographies and correspondence.
For more information, visit the website of the Library of the Institute for Modern Texts and Manuscripts.
Image : Flaubert, Gustave. [Le Château des cœurs. Neuvième tableau. Extrait]. Source gallica.bnf.fr / BnF
Access terms
Sont accueillis tous les lecteurs intéressés par les collections conservées à l'ITEM, après un échange avec un membre des équipes. L'accès se fait sur rendez-vous auprès de Elifsu Sabuncu .
Crédit image : Flaubert, Gustave. [Le Château des cœurs. Neuvième tableau. Extrait]. Source gallica.bnf.fr / BnF
Institute for Modern Texts and Manuscripts
