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QUENEAU RAYMOND (1903-1976)
MANUSCRIT autograph signed " Raymond Queneau ", Battre la campagne, [1967] | 162 pages in-4 (21 x 27 cm)
Complete manuscript of the poetic collection Battre la campagne.
Battre la campagne was published in February 1968 by Gallimard in the collection Blanche. It is the second part of the trilogy started the year before with Courir les rues (Queneau had considered for a while the title Courir la campagne), and completed in 1969 with Fendre les flots. Let's quote from the insert: "This book is a follow-up to Courir les rues. The streets, if one follows them to the end, lead to the fields or to the woods. One meets peasants, plants, animals, but the city advances along the national roads. Will there always be peasants, plants, animals? Or rather, will there always be peasants, plants and animals? Looking back to his childhood, the author remembers that he met his peasants, his plants, his animals. Memories and questions are presented in the form of poems. To denounce the cruel order of things, Queneau often diverts proverbs or ready-made expressions, as well as fables of La Fontaine. Let us quote the last poem which gives its title to the collection:
"He puts his fever at the window
to dry it
he drinks the good herb tea
of the herbariums
while watching the beeches fly
and walking
the byways and the ruins
dislocate themselves [...]
the animals have put on their Sunday clothes
it is a fairy tale
the patient is better he takes on the board
his temperature wiped out
all this was just a hitch
in a too tight fabric ".
This almost definitive manuscript, cleaned up, is written in black and blue ballpoint pen, on the front of watermarked sheets L.J.&Cie| it presents numerous autograph corrections, some poems being abundantly corrected, others not at all: in total we count 249 corrections, among which crossed out lines (sometimes a whole stanza), modified words, some rare orthographic corrections| these corrections concern 58 poems out of the 155 that the collection counts. It remained unknown to Claude Debon for the Pléiade edition. The title page bears in the upper right corner a dedication to his wife : "pour Janine", deleted in the edition. The rest of the manuscript is numbered in pencil from 2 to 157 (the numbering changing from 132 to 134), then the table of poems on 5 unnumbered pages. The p. 13 is accompanied by a photocopy. In the table are 2 crossed out titles: Le langage des fleurs and Une clé qui ne sert à rien. All the poems follow in the order of the printed collection, except for Exode, here situated between Le Songe végétal and Modestie, at the very end of the manuscript (it will be placed in the book between Un précurseur and Le Ténébreux.
Œuvres complètes, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, tome I, edition established by Claude Debon, 1989 (p. 433-526, and notice p. 1372-1374).
MANUSCRIT autograph signed " Raymond Queneau ", Battre la campagne, [1967] | 162 pages in-4 (21 x 27 cm)
Complete manuscript of the poetic collection Battre la campagne.
Battre la campagne was published in February 1968 by Gallimard in the collection Blanche. It is the second part of the trilogy started the year before with Courir les rues (Queneau had considered for a while the title Courir la campagne), and completed in 1969 with Fendre les flots. Let's quote from the insert: "This book is a follow-up to Courir les rues. The streets, if one follows them to the end, lead to the fields or to the woods. One meets peasants, plants, animals, but the city advances along the national roads. Will there always be peasants, plants, animals? Or rather, will there always be peasants, plants and animals? Looking back to his childhood, the author remembers that he met his peasants, his plants, his animals. Memories and questions are presented in the form of poems. To denounce the cruel order of things, Queneau often diverts proverbs or ready-made expressions, as well as fables of La Fontaine. Let us quote the last poem which gives its title to the collection:
"He puts his fever at the window
to dry it
he drinks the good herb tea
of the herbariums
while watching the beeches fly
and walking
the byways and the ruins
dislocate themselves [...]
the animals have put on their Sunday clothes
it is a fairy tale
the patient is better he takes on the board
his temperature wiped out
all this was just a hitch
in a too tight fabric ".
This almost definitive manuscript, cleaned up, is written in black and blue ballpoint pen, on the front of watermarked sheets L.J.&Cie| it presents numerous autograph corrections, some poems being abundantly corrected, others not at all: in total we count 249 corrections, among which crossed out lines (sometimes a whole stanza), modified words, some rare orthographic corrections| these corrections concern 58 poems out of the 155 that the collection counts. It remained unknown to Claude Debon for the Pléiade edition. The title page bears in the upper right corner a dedication to his wife : "pour Janine", deleted in the edition. The rest of the manuscript is numbered in pencil from 2 to 157 (the numbering changing from 132 to 134), then the table of poems on 5 unnumbered pages. The p. 13 is accompanied by a photocopy. In the table are 2 crossed out titles: Le langage des fleurs and Une clé qui ne sert à rien. All the poems follow in the order of the printed collection, except for Exode, here situated between Le Songe végétal and Modestie, at the very end of the manuscript (it will be placed in the book between Un précurseur and Le Ténébreux.
Œuvres complètes, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, tome I, edition established by Claude Debon, 1989 (p. 433-526, and notice p. 1372-1374).