Lot n° 61
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Écrivains.
7 documents.
Beckett (Samuel): autograph note signed at "Cher Jean" Paris 5-11-70, 1/3 p. in-4°. "Thank you for the good news, call me... "Autograph card signed Paris 11-1-74; Cendrars (Blaise): L.A.S. to "Marie et Marcel" Biarritz 27 December 1932, 1 p. in-4°: He sends his best wishes for the New Year to Jouhandeau and his mother, he does not work well yet but his health is good and hopes that "you will find me as happy and content as I should always be...". "Cassou (Jean): signed autograph manuscript entitled "Lettres espagnoles" (s.l.n.d.) 7 p. in-4°, erasures and some corrections: interesting text relating to the Spanish literature of Toledo. He speaks first of all about Urabayen's book Toledo Piedad: "The fever of solitude and passion burns this book, like all those that inspired and will inspire Toledo... Felix de Urabayen lived
Toledo so much that he felt the life of a singular and frightening character awaken in him, he dared to resurrect the Greco... Urubayen's style is cordial, natural and lively... "Then he talks about the fiftieth anniversary of Mallarmé's death, various French writers were meeting at his grave, Spanish writers had decided to join them in thought on the initiative of Alfonso
Reyes. Mallarmé "Our poet, perhaps the greatest and most profound of all our literature... " There follows an eulogy of the poet.
Then he speaks of popular poetry as opposed to "cult" poetry, which are not so far apart that a single spirit cannot reconcile them: he gives as an example Gongora... Joint L.A.S. of his initials Paris 1 aout 1923, 2 p. pet. in-8°: "Here is a Spanish chronicle, plus the verses of the young Robert Georges Louis... "; Dorgeles (Roland): L.A.S. Interesting letter concerning his film "Coup de tête": Dorgeles asks his friend who gives literature lessons to give his opinion on the film; in his absence the director Hénaff has "tinkered with my text adding a dialogue and gags of his own taste, so that I wonder what the film
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