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347 - André GIDE (1869–1951). 14 letters from the author and 5 let…
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André GIDE (1869–1951). 14 letters from the author and 5 letters to the author, 1927–1949, to Julien Green; approximately 30 pages, in-8 or in-4 format, with numerous envelopes. A fine collection of friendly and literary correspondence. 1928. On the screening of Vsevolod Pudovkin’s film at the Vieux-Colombier: ‘We are organising a private screening for a few friends of the very fine Soviet film, banned by the censors: *The Last Days of St Petersburg*’… 1929. – 8 May: ‘I would very much like to know, before I leave Paris, what has become of your screenplay project’; they could discuss it with Marc Allégret: ‘I remember telling you that I would send you the screenplay for any film, so that you could see how the subject might be portrayed on screen’… – [12 September]. Marc Allégret “has just finished shooting an ‘electoral’ film for Fabre-Luce, which has completely taken up his time these past few days”… – Cuverville, 12 July 1932. ‘Wasn’t it to you that I spoke recently about Thomas Traherne (1536–1674), recommending, rather than his *Poetical Works* […], his volume of prose, *Centuries of Meditations*’… – Karlsbad, 28 July 1934. “How can I express my delight? Your *Visionnaire* far exceeds my expectations. My expectations were high because of our friendship, and I opened your new book with some trepidation. I delayed reading it for a long time […] I was waiting for the right moment, which, for me, when it comes to a work of literature, is never—or only very rarely—the moment when the critics are discussing it […] Dear friend, I love your book to excess. I find everything in it to my liking, and not only the unsettling characters, the troubling events—whether real or imaginary—and that extraordinary overlay of a dream made up of everything that the inadequate reality could not provide […]; but also that strange and harrowing atmosphere, so charged with mystical electricity; and, perhaps above all, your prose’… Etc. – Fez, 6 April 1935. ‘I’ve spoken a great deal about you over the last few days with Jef Last, who is accompanying me (and whom you must meet without delay), and my hosts [Guy Delon] ’, who have ‘provided Jef Last and me with a very spacious and pleasant room on the second floor of their Moorish house […] What a city!’… Nice, 6 December 1941 (Green is in exile in the United States). Gide reflects on their evening at the Lido in June 1928, ‘glad to have mentioned it in my Journal […] If you’d stayed in France, I believe that, like me, you would suffer greatly from the division of the country and of minds’. After Cabris, Gide retired to Nice, ‘where I live in solitude at the hotel’; he contributed to *Le Figaro* ‘a sort of weekly column […] in the form of “Imaginary Interviews”; but in which I can say almost nothing of what is close to my heart’; he saw little of anyone other than Martin du Gard and Malraux… 24 May 1946, on Green’s *Memories of Happy Days*: ‘I haven’t yet read the whole book; rather foolishly, opening it at random, I began reading at Chapter VIII; then pressed on to the end in one go, drawn in and held captive by a sort of indefinable attachment […] Simplicity, profound honesty, naturalness – those exquisite qualities (and so rare today!) that we appreciate so much in Rutherford, I find them in you, and take comfort in them. […] And, what’s more… ah! everything you say about the creation of Adrienne Mesurat’… Etc. – 23 June 1949: ‘Many pages of your Journal (I should say: an ever-increasing number of pages, each more welcome than the last) had drawn me closer to you, to the point of making me doubt the significance of what separates us and which seems to me, more and more, not as a reality, but rather a construct of your mind, for which I like to believe you are scarcely responsible’… Enclosed are three draft letters from Green to Gide (two autographs and one annotated typescript), 1941–1949; a typewritten note concerning Marlowe’s blasphemies; a facsimile of *Moyens d’entraînement et d’excitation au travail*; and a handwritten letter from Catherine Gide to Green (1995).
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