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PREVERT Jacques (1900-1977)
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PREVERT Jacques (1900-1977)
Terres cuites de Béotie, autograph manuscript signed, [1936]| 5 1/2 pages in-folio (one in-4) with some erasures and corrections. Two wet spots on the first page.
A poetic and humorous meditation on Greek statuettes, inspired by photographs taken by Eli Lotar at the National Museum of Athens, and published in the magazine Minotaure (no. 9) in October 1936| the text was collected in Soleil de nuit (1980).
"They are in a museum, behind glass, in Greece, and the men who sculpted them, as they say, lived 9 to 7 centuries before Christ [...] Finally! the men die, the statuettes remain... other men come to see them [...] One day a man arrives, the statues are taken out of the showcase, the man draws their portrait and leaves... the portraits appear in a review... [...] Statuettes of Boeotia, I look at you with attention and also with a little tenderness. [...] Those who made you with their hands, made you in their image... I would like to see these men, to take them by the arm and talk to them joyfully... to have a drink with them... a little drunk, all together, we would go and see the statues of today... and the great laughter would take us in front of the monuments to the dead, in front of the monuments to the sick... in front of the monuments to the old... to the castrated.... to the assassin... to the Marshal of France... to
Maurras... to the doddering... to the madman... to the fire... to the helper... to the archbishop of
Paris... to Mr. Séguin's goat... to the Galliff and... to the cretin", etc.
Prévert illustrates his signature with the drawing of a little cat.
Terres cuites de Béotie, autograph manuscript signed, [1936]| 5 1/2 pages in-folio (one in-4) with some erasures and corrections. Two wet spots on the first page.
A poetic and humorous meditation on Greek statuettes, inspired by photographs taken by Eli Lotar at the National Museum of Athens, and published in the magazine Minotaure (no. 9) in October 1936| the text was collected in Soleil de nuit (1980).
"They are in a museum, behind glass, in Greece, and the men who sculpted them, as they say, lived 9 to 7 centuries before Christ [...] Finally! the men die, the statuettes remain... other men come to see them [...] One day a man arrives, the statues are taken out of the showcase, the man draws their portrait and leaves... the portraits appear in a review... [...] Statuettes of Boeotia, I look at you with attention and also with a little tenderness. [...] Those who made you with their hands, made you in their image... I would like to see these men, to take them by the arm and talk to them joyfully... to have a drink with them... a little drunk, all together, we would go and see the statues of today... and the great laughter would take us in front of the monuments to the dead, in front of the monuments to the sick... in front of the monuments to the old... to the castrated.... to the assassin... to the Marshal of France... to
Maurras... to the doddering... to the madman... to the fire... to the helper... to the archbishop of
Paris... to Mr. Séguin's goat... to the Galliff and... to the cretin", etc.
Prévert illustrates his signature with the drawing of a little cat.