VIAN Boris

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VIAN Boris
[Heartbreaking] Les Fillettes de la reine, autograph manuscripts and typescripts signed by L'Arrache-Coeur. 1951 Les Fillettes de la reine is the first title to appear on the manuscripts of L'Arrache-Coeur. Vian will retain the latter. - Les Fillettes de la reine. First set, typescript signed 230 sheets in-4 under cardboard entitled: "Les fillettes de la reine. Première manche", autograph title also on the title page "Les fillettes de la reine. First sleeve up to the cages. Volume 1". Signed by Boris Vian. The important typeface includes corrections in purple ink from Vian's hand, he also signed it on the last page. Unpublished version, 1st draft. - Les Fillettes de la reine. Second sleeve, autograph manuscript and a few typescript pages 103 in-4 leaves in a cardboard sleeve titled: "Maman, gâteau variantes", 57 handwritten leaves in green ink and 46 typescript leaves with corrections by Vian. Les Fillettes de la reine. Second set corresponds to the synopsis of L'Arrache-Coeur, published in part in La Pléiade. - Les Fillettes de la reine, autograph manuscript signed. 1951 345 in-4 leaves in violet ink, with erasures and corrections, paginated from 20 to 341. This manuscript is the first version of the novel reprinted by Gallimard in 1951. Gallimard refuses the manuscript and it is published by Vrille in 1953. A very complete version of the exergue of L'Arrache-Coeur: "Any resemblance with real events, people or landscapes is highly desirable. There are no symbols and what is told here actually happened".
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