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MERMOZ JEAN (1901-1936)
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MERMOZ JEAN (1901-1936)
Cauchemar d'éther, autograph poem signed, crossed out and corrected.
Juby [Cap Juby (Morocco)], July 7, 1926.4 p. in-4 on laid paper, blue ink. Some stains, tears with restorations.
Remarkable poem of 20 quatrains, written at the fortress of Cape Juby, a famous Moroccan stopover on the Casablanca-Dakar line.
A few weeks earlier, while trying to reach Cape Juby on foot, after a breakdown, Mermoz ended up surrendering himself to the Moors in order to avoid dying of thirst, even though he had already drank the liquid from the radiator of his plane. // She is asleep... a living... mysterious enigma... / Face with lowered eyelashes... sinuous mouth... / Low, stubborn forehead of a capricious child... / Throbbing nostril... mischievous expression... // She sleeps... flesh of stone... inert marble... /
indifferent beauty... indifferent too beautiful... / Distant presence... to my rebellious desire... / She sleeps... her pale nakedness uncovered... [...]».
At the end of the following year, Saint Exupéry was appointed head of the aeroplane at Cap Juby.
This poem, which Joseph Kessel quotes in his biography of the aviator, evokes the evenings when Mermoz, as a young corporal, indulged in drugs in the company of a drug-addicted woman: "A tepid summer's night... without a breath of breeze... / A heavy silence... of anguished pleasure... / Strange glimmers of stars... a tinted fi rmament / Of green pallor... a lingering glow... undecided... // The room... huge... chasm of gloom... / The bed... low... lit by a spectral light / On the very white pillow... a very dark spot... / Brown female head... confused face...
Cauchemar d'éther, autograph poem signed, crossed out and corrected.
Juby [Cap Juby (Morocco)], July 7, 1926.4 p. in-4 on laid paper, blue ink. Some stains, tears with restorations.
Remarkable poem of 20 quatrains, written at the fortress of Cape Juby, a famous Moroccan stopover on the Casablanca-Dakar line.
A few weeks earlier, while trying to reach Cape Juby on foot, after a breakdown, Mermoz ended up surrendering himself to the Moors in order to avoid dying of thirst, even though he had already drank the liquid from the radiator of his plane. // She is asleep... a living... mysterious enigma... / Face with lowered eyelashes... sinuous mouth... / Low, stubborn forehead of a capricious child... / Throbbing nostril... mischievous expression... // She sleeps... flesh of stone... inert marble... /
indifferent beauty... indifferent too beautiful... / Distant presence... to my rebellious desire... / She sleeps... her pale nakedness uncovered... [...]».
At the end of the following year, Saint Exupéry was appointed head of the aeroplane at Cap Juby.
This poem, which Joseph Kessel quotes in his biography of the aviator, evokes the evenings when Mermoz, as a young corporal, indulged in drugs in the company of a drug-addicted woman: "A tepid summer's night... without a breath of breeze... / A heavy silence... of anguished pleasure... / Strange glimmers of stars... a tinted fi rmament / Of green pallor... a lingering glow... undecided... // The room... huge... chasm of gloom... / The bed... low... lit by a spectral light / On the very white pillow... a very dark spot... / Brown female head... confused face...