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Irlande... ce nom seul évoque d'immenses étendues vertes et sauvages, balayées par le vent. Nous reviennent aussi en mémoire, les pubs colorés où la bière et la musique celtique perpétuent une tradition ancestrale.

C'est dans ce pays mythique, à Dublin, que George Bernard Shaw voit le jour en 1856.
Il serait vain de tenter de résumer en quelques lignes l'oeuvre immense de cet homme remarquable à plus d'un titre.
Provocateur,acerbe,anticonformiste mais profondément pacifiste,il cherchera dans ses oeuvres à dénoncer un certain ordre établi et parfois trop rigoureux. Ses mots d'humour, souvent teintés de noir, sont célèbres dans le monde entier.
Auteur de près de cinquante pièces de théâtre, il a reçu le prix Nobel de Littérature en 1925. C'est en 1939 que lui est attribué un Oscar pour le film "My Fair Lady" son adaptation cinématographique de la très célèbre pièce "Pygmalion". "On" raconte que la statuette lui servait de "bloque porte"...

Editée pendant l'été 2008, la série George Bernard Shaw, appartient à cette lignée que Montblanc, depuis 1992, consacre chaque année à un écrivain.
Elle se compose de 16000 stylos plume, 18000 stylos bille et 4000 sets (plume, bille et porte mine). Sous l'étoile figure la signature de l'écrivain. La plume est en or 18 carats plaquée rhodium et une fleur y est gravée en souvenir d'Eliza Doolittle, la petite vendeuse de fleurs, héroïne de Pygmalion,
Les créateurs ont souhaité en mariant le platine au magnifique vert marbré de la résine... en gravant la petite fleur sur la plume , mettre tout autant en valeur l'héroïne que son créateur.
Un ensemble de maroquinerie haut de gamme vient compléter le lancement de cette série spéciale.


This year the coveted Montblanc Writers Edition is dedicated to George Bernard Shaw. Montblanc honours the dramatist and Nobel Prize winner for literature with a limited writing-instrument collection, in which the dark green marbled body with its gleaming platinised rings reflects the development of the flower girl Eliza Doolittle into an apparently aristocratic lady.
Together with the writing-instrument edition, Montblanc is presenting for the first time a select collection of note taking and writing accessories, superbly handcrafted from soft black calf leather. Especially eye-catching and novel features are the finely embossed text fragments on each piece, representing handwritten quotations of the great Irish writer George Bernard Shaw.
If a commission had been set up when the world was created, it still wouldn’t be finished today.“ Such witty aphorisms established the reputation of the Dubliner, born in 1856, as a sharp and shrewd satirist. George Bernard Shaw taught himself what interested him: literature and music. When he was 20, he moved to London, became music and theatre critic and wrote about 40 plays.
In 1925 the linguistically talented freethinker received the Nobel Prize for literature and in 1938, as the only Nobel Prize winner, an Oscar for the film-script adaptation of his best known play “Pygmalion“ – better known under the later musical title “My Fair Lady“. The story of the phonetics ¬professor Henry Higgins and the London flower girl Eliza Doolittle is world-famous: In the belief that the social status of a person depends only on that person’s language, Higgins teaches the flower girl the pronunciation and vocabulary of a cultivated lady of the London upper class. Shaw’s social satire caused a scandal at its première in 1913. The combination of humour with underlying criticism of the Victorian class society was too obvious. Filmed several times and in 1956, six years after Shaw’s death, performed as a musical which won eight Oscars, the play achieved everlasting world fame.
The dark green marbled lacquer softens ring by ring towards the cap with its brightly shining platinised surface. Eliza’s origin is also recollected in the fine flower engraving on the hand worked, Platonised nib of 18-carat gold. On the cap, under the ivory-coloured Montblanc star, there is engraved the sweeping signature of her spiritual father George Bernard Shaw.
They are available in a limited edition and only in Montblanc boutiques and from selected trade partners. The Montblanc Writers Edition 2008 appears in August and is limited to 16,000 fountain-pens, 18,000 ballpoint pens and 4,000 set combinations with matching mechanical pencil – dedicated to the most important English-language dramatist since William Shakespeare: George Bernard Shaw.
A Montblanc Writers Edition in leather: for the first time, the writing-instrument collection is enhanced by an exceptional leather collection of the same name.
This optical and sensual experience celebrates its première with three exceptional note-taking and writing accessories in the Limited Writers Edition George Bernard Shaw in noble, jet-black nappa calf leather: a DIN A4 conference folder, a handy and compact notebook and a small notebook with additional space for bank notes. Finely embossed extracts from famous works such as ‘Pygmalion’ and ‘Man and Superman’ on the outside as well as notelets and postcards in connection with contemporary motifs reflect both aesthetically and authentically the individuality of the eponymous writer. This collection is exceptional in every detail, with softly worked bags with flaps for closing and lavishly designed insides.
As strictly limited as the writing instruments in the Limited Writers Edition George Bernard Shaw, only a restricted number of these exclusive leather articles have been produced by master craftsmen: only 10,000 pieces of all three models will therefore be available in selected boutiques as from August 2008 and from selected trade partners as from September 2008.
