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GRACQ Julien (1910-2007)

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GRACQ Julien (1910-2007)
Set of notebooks, handwritten notes and letters
- Various dates and formats.
Set of handwritten chips, notebooks, handwritten notes, letters.
- Autograph notes showing the multiple facets of Julien GRACQ.
- An in-8 notebook with 4 pp. autographs. In the introduction to these pages, Gracq notes: "literature can hardly be separated from the conversation about literature. The texts that follow correspond to quite diverse modes of this conversation". There follow a few words on Proust, Gide, Céline, existentialism...|
- A notebook in-12 with 5 handwritten pp. describing a chess game|
- An autograph outline of a text on chess "La recherche de l'absolu" (2 pp. in-8)|
- An autograph outline of a conference on Surrealism (4 pp.
in-8). Incomplete, pages numbered from 3 to 6|
- 4 autograph pp. including a fragment of Aubrac's libretto, composed in 1995, of Antoine Bonnet's cycle La Terre habitable|
- A L.A.S. from José Corti, dated January 11, 1947, concerning Le
Roi Pêcheur, its adaptation by Jean-Louis Barrault and Valentine Hugo's intervention in its favor|
- A photograph of Julien Gracq|
- Prose pour l'étrangère. 1952, paperback. First edition|
- José Corti. In-12, paperback. Rare first edition limited to 63 numbered copies.