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KÂ- MONDO / KAPANDJI MORHANGE

221 - MOCKEL, Albert. Signed autograph letter to [Édouard Ducoté].
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MOCKEL, Albert. Signed autograph letter to [Édouard Ducoté]. 4 pages, in-12 format, in black ink, Paris, 11 May 1900. A lengthy letter written after reading Édouard Ducoté’s *Merveilles et moralités*, published in *Le Mercure de France* in 1900. Albert Mockel offers a subtle analysis of this first collection of short stories. “Perhaps you are more of a philosopher than a man of letters; and yet you know how to write. I can only fault you for a little carelessness in form, and even that word is not entirely accurate [...] You possess great gifts, truly very rare ones. Symbols come easily to you, and you immediately find the human gesture, the vivid image in which your idea must take shape”… Édouard Ducoté (1870–1929), who edited the literary journal *L’Ermitage*, and Albert Mockel (1866–1945), a Belgian writer, both emerged from the Symbolist movement and shared a mutual friend in André Gide.
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About the sale Sale of collectable books and first editions – Varia III –
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Auction time 09/14/2026 at 2:00 PM
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