FRENCH LITERATURE -- 20th CENTURY. A collection of approximately seventy-five autograph letters, manuscripts and notes, mostly signed (some with initials) by writers, critics and academicians, including
FRENCH LITERATURE -- 20th CENTURY. A collection of approximately seventy-five autograph letters, manuscripts and notes, mostly signed (some with initials) by writers, critics and academicians, including: Raymond RADIGUET. Autograph manuscript poem signed, 'Nymphe Emue', 2 April 1921, comprising 24 lines of verse, with an 8-line rhyming dedication 'à Madame Bartholomeuss Souvenir de Carqueiranne', 2 pages, folio ; with an autograph letter by Jean COCTEAU to [Henri] Massis, an emotional outpouring on Radiguet's death, 'Je souffre. Je reste sans forces au milieu d'un vide mortel, sur les décombres d'une usine de cristal', August 1924 (with another by Cocteau); Paul VALÉRY One autograph and 2 typed letters to Jean Voilier [pseudonym of Jeanne Loviton, his lover from 1937 to 1945], 1939, mostly on her absence, 'encore d'autres images créées par le sourd travail du coeur contre l'absence ... la soif engendre le sorbet'; and letters by Albert CAMUS (referring to the Feuillets d'Hypnos by René Char, 'notre plus grand poète' and recommending Paul Delvaux 1946); Jean-Paul-SARTRE (autograph manuscript of an editorial article incomplete for Le Temps Moderne , his monthly literary, philosophical and political review, 'Il y a dix-huit mois notre revue n'avait même pas de nom; elle demeurait une masse confuse, une sorte de nébuleuse en train de refroidir, avec des parties solides et d'autres encore liquides et gazeuses', and explaining the choice of title [1947]), Colette (explaining that she has no luxury editions, 'La bibliophilie croissante et les nécessités de la vie m'en ont dépouillée'), Pierre Louÿs (three to Claude Farrère), Claude Farrère (autograph statement on the 'crimes' of Europe, 1939), Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, Paul Claudel (on the death of Ramuz, 1947), Eugène Ionesco (referring to his play La Cantatrice Chauve ), Ilya Ehrenburg, Jean Renoir; other signatories including René Doumic (2), Maurice Maeterlinck, Charles Maurras (2), Octave Mirbeau, Abel Hermant, Gabriel-Othenin d'Haussonville, Georges Feydeau (2 letters and an autograph poem), Rémy de Gourmont, Fernand Gregh (autograph poem signed and letter), Pierre Mille, Maurice Genevoix, Maurice Garçon, Daniel Rops, René Clair Ferdinand Brunetière, Abbé Henri Bremond Pierre Benoît, Edmond Rostand, Marcel Pagnol, André Siegfried, Joseph Kessel, Henri Lavedan, Jacques de Lacretelle, Georges Lecomte, Jacques Prevert and approximately thirty others. Radiguet's poem Nymphe Emue was written in March-April 1921 when he spent five weeks at Cairquerranne where he was joined by Cocteau. The poem (but not the present dedication) was published in 1925 in the posthumous revised edition of Les joues en feu ( Oeuvres complètes , ed. C. Radiguet and J. Cendres, 1993).
FRENCH LITERATURE -- 20th CENTURY. A collection of approximately seventy-five autograph letters, manuscripts and notes, mostly signed (some with initials) by writers, critics and academicians, including
FRENCH LITERATURE -- 20th CENTURY. A collection of approximately seventy-five autograph letters, manuscripts and notes, mostly signed (some with initials) by writers, critics and academicians, including: Raymond RADIGUET. Autograph manuscript poem signed, 'Nymphe Emue', 2 April 1921, comprising 24 lines of verse, with an 8-line rhyming dedication 'à Madame Bartholomeuss Souvenir de Carqueiranne', 2 pages, folio ; with an autograph letter by Jean COCTEAU to [Henri] Massis, an emotional outpouring on Radiguet's death, 'Je souffre. Je reste sans forces au milieu d'un vide mortel, sur les décombres d'une usine de cristal', August 1924 (with another by Cocteau); Paul VALÉRY One autograph and 2 typed letters to Jean Voilier [pseudonym of Jeanne Loviton, his lover from 1937 to 1945], 1939, mostly on her absence, 'encore d'autres images créées par le sourd travail du coeur contre l'absence ... la soif engendre le sorbet'; and letters by Albert CAMUS (referring to the Feuillets d'Hypnos by René Char, 'notre plus grand poète' and recommending Paul Delvaux 1946); Jean-Paul-SARTRE (autograph manuscript of an editorial article incomplete for Le Temps Moderne , his monthly literary, philosophical and political review, 'Il y a dix-huit mois notre revue n'avait même pas de nom; elle demeurait une masse confuse, une sorte de nébuleuse en train de refroidir, avec des parties solides et d'autres encore liquides et gazeuses', and explaining the choice of title [1947]), Colette (explaining that she has no luxury editions, 'La bibliophilie croissante et les nécessités de la vie m'en ont dépouillée'), Pierre Louÿs (three to Claude Farrère), Claude Farrère (autograph statement on the 'crimes' of Europe, 1939), Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, Paul Claudel (on the death of Ramuz, 1947), Eugène Ionesco (referring to his play La Cantatrice Chauve ), Ilya Ehrenburg, Jean Renoir; other signatories including René Doumic (2), Maurice Maeterlinck, Charles Maurras (2), Octave Mirbeau, Abel Hermant, Gabriel-Othenin d'Haussonville, Georges Feydeau (2 letters and an autograph poem), Rémy de Gourmont, Fernand Gregh (autograph poem signed and letter), Pierre Mille, Maurice Genevoix, Maurice Garçon, Daniel Rops, René Clair Ferdinand Brunetière, Abbé Henri Bremond Pierre Benoît, Edmond Rostand, Marcel Pagnol, André Siegfried, Joseph Kessel, Henri Lavedan, Jacques de Lacretelle, Georges Lecomte, Jacques Prevert and approximately thirty others. Radiguet's poem Nymphe Emue was written in March-April 1921 when he spent five weeks at Cairquerranne where he was joined by Cocteau. The poem (but not the present dedication) was published in 1925 in the posthumous revised edition of Les joues en feu ( Oeuvres complètes , ed. C. Radiguet and J. Cendres, 1993).
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