treasure island text by OLIVIER ZAHM One day about four years ago Edouard Merino, a partner in the French gallery Air de Paris, which for the most part shows conceptual art, found a stack of rejected manuscripts lying abandoned in the street in Saint Germain des Prés, a neighborhood where many publishing houses are located. He spontaneously began riffling through them and found some of interest — obscure writers’s rejected novels, the residue of broken literary dreams. Maybe he recalled Brautigan’s novel, The Abortion, which is about a young librarian who collects unpublished manuscripts don-ated by struggling writers, and then asks the authors to write a few lines summarizing them as if they were masterpieces. Edouard didn’t know what to do with the bounty he’d accidently found. He gave them to the French graphic designers Mathias Augustyniak and Michael Amzalag, the creators of M/M (Paris). They worked with the…