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COCTEAU Jean (1889-1963)
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COCTEAU Jean (1889-1963)
7 autograph MANUSCRIPTS, [circa 1920]| 10 pages in-4 and 4 pages in-12.
Set of poems or fragments.
Madrigal (1 page in-4): "In a tethered balloon / it's faster"... (Poetic works, Pléiade, p. 346).
"Partout aux fenêtres du monde" (Everywhere at the windows of the world) . (4 pages in-4, including one in pencil), working manuscript with numerous erasures and corrections, and successive elaborations: "Partout aux fenêtres du monde Young people
Call
Call
On the edge of the day
They call for help" .
[Temperatures 2]: 2 - "The Negro, miner of the azure" ... (2 quatrains on 1 page in-4), 2nd poem from Températures which opens the collection Poésies 1917-1920.
"A singer - Standing is a fighting cock - Is a column - Broken in the middle"... (1 page in-4), prose poem, with erasures and corrections.
"The storm made grow / Flowers and posters"... (1 page in-4, numbered or paginated 3, with erasures and corrections).
"I note only the huge"... (4 pages in-12 on 2 envelopes from the Hotel
Terminus at Lyon Perrache), a series of notes and anecdotes about Boni de Castellane, Jules Lemaitre, Jules Renard, Mallarmé, Misia Sert, Anna de Noailles, etc. Thus : "July 14th 1914. Lemaitre in Rostand, who had just punched a hole in the tablecloth with his cigarette, was acting like a kid and wondering how to hide the thing - "Sign the hole"".
Draft title page: Poems 1915-1919, with "By the same author" on the back.
Attached is a typewritten typed text with corrections and autograph annotations, of an important fragment of Store étoilé, a poem collected in Poésies 1917-1920 (7 p. in-4 pag. 40-46, the beginning is missing), dated 1915, probably prepared for a three-voice reading or a performance with the marginal mentions of the speakers : H, S or I, and music "Rag"
7 autograph MANUSCRIPTS, [circa 1920]| 10 pages in-4 and 4 pages in-12.
Set of poems or fragments.
Madrigal (1 page in-4): "In a tethered balloon / it's faster"... (Poetic works, Pléiade, p. 346).
"Partout aux fenêtres du monde" (Everywhere at the windows of the world) . (4 pages in-4, including one in pencil), working manuscript with numerous erasures and corrections, and successive elaborations: "Partout aux fenêtres du monde Young people
Call
Call
On the edge of the day
They call for help" .
[Temperatures 2]: 2 - "The Negro, miner of the azure" ... (2 quatrains on 1 page in-4), 2nd poem from Températures which opens the collection Poésies 1917-1920.
"A singer - Standing is a fighting cock - Is a column - Broken in the middle"... (1 page in-4), prose poem, with erasures and corrections.
"The storm made grow / Flowers and posters"... (1 page in-4, numbered or paginated 3, with erasures and corrections).
"I note only the huge"... (4 pages in-12 on 2 envelopes from the Hotel
Terminus at Lyon Perrache), a series of notes and anecdotes about Boni de Castellane, Jules Lemaitre, Jules Renard, Mallarmé, Misia Sert, Anna de Noailles, etc. Thus : "July 14th 1914. Lemaitre in Rostand, who had just punched a hole in the tablecloth with his cigarette, was acting like a kid and wondering how to hide the thing - "Sign the hole"".
Draft title page: Poems 1915-1919, with "By the same author" on the back.
Attached is a typewritten typed text with corrections and autograph annotations, of an important fragment of Store étoilé, a poem collected in Poésies 1917-1920 (7 p. in-4 pag. 40-46, the beginning is missing), dated 1915, probably prepared for a three-voice reading or a performance with the marginal mentions of the speakers : H, S or I, and music "Rag"
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