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SAINT-EXUPÉRY Antoine de (1900-1944)
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SAINT-EXUPÉRY Antoine de (1900-1944)
CORRECTED ORIGINAL TAPScript, Vol sur Arras [Pilote de guerre| late 1941]| [2]-200 pages in-4 (27.4 x 21.6 cm), bound in red chagrin bradel, gilt title on upper board. Vol Sur Arras / by Antoine de Saint Exupéry / original manuscript / with autograph dedication (corners and spine rubbed).
Precious original typescript of Pilote de guerre, entitled Vol sur Arras.
Intended to celebrate the heroism of French aviation in the war, this book was published in New York on February 20, 1942, in English under the title Flight to Arras, and in French under the title Pilote de guerre| then in France by Gallimard, on November 27, 1942, first censored by the German occupation authorities, but banned on February 11, 1943, and distributed clandestinely by the resistance movements. The book had a great impact in the United States, whose involvement in the conflict Saint-Exupéry wanted| it was strongly attacked in France by the collaborationist press. This typescript, on watermarked American Esleeck Fidelity Onion Skin paper, shows handwritten erasures and corrections in black ink and pencil| one entire paragraph has been reworked (pp. 177-178). On f. 21 appears the unexpurgated version of the famous sentence about Hitler censored by Gallimard at the request of the Propagandastaffel: "Hitler who started [sic] this demented war.
This typescript is enriched with a beautiful autograph sending signed to Nada de BRAGANCE ("Plume d'Ange") on 2 pages in black pencil: "My little Plume d'Ange, I really need to see you again. I am tired. I have taken a heavy load on my shoulders. And there is no question of being able to live in peace by getting rid of it, nor of being able to breathe by assuming it. Conscience is a strange thing. Obviously it is not a question of living as a husband-wife. That is impossible for me. But the rest is already so, so bitter. And now my little book is coming out. And all the slander and jealousy is coming as usual. You can see it from here, the underworld of the false French of New York that is already stirring. I feel at a thousand signs fermenting the swamp... Ah! Plume d'Ange how sad, disgusted and weary I am! Here is my bear. I do not think any good of it - believe it. I wrote it in the interior disorder. I couldn't say what I wanted to. I beg you to hug me when you get it and read it. I will call you immediately. But say a word over the wire already! If you think it's awful, say so - I don't know myself to be vain. Love to you, Angel Feather. Yes. Also... Antoine. (Typed transcript attached). [Nada de BRAGANCE (1910-1946), wife of a Brazilian prince, frequented Saint-Exupéry during his stay in New York. The nickname "Plume d'Ange" is said to come from her disheveled hair]. The BnF also holds a typed copy of Pilote de guerre that Saint Exupéry gave to the musician Nadia Boulanger, indicating in the dedication that he was offering her "one of the four manuscripts" (Œuvres complètes, II, Pléiade, 2009, p. 1317). Our typing is similar to that of the BnF in format, overall composition, and corrections that bring variations from the published text, even if the two versions remain very close.
PROVENANCE
Nada de Bragance (consignment). Sale Drouot, December 4, 1991 (out of catalog). Christie's Paris sale, November 20, 2007 (n° 96).
CORRECTED ORIGINAL TAPScript, Vol sur Arras [Pilote de guerre| late 1941]| [2]-200 pages in-4 (27.4 x 21.6 cm), bound in red chagrin bradel, gilt title on upper board. Vol Sur Arras / by Antoine de Saint Exupéry / original manuscript / with autograph dedication (corners and spine rubbed).
Precious original typescript of Pilote de guerre, entitled Vol sur Arras.
Intended to celebrate the heroism of French aviation in the war, this book was published in New York on February 20, 1942, in English under the title Flight to Arras, and in French under the title Pilote de guerre| then in France by Gallimard, on November 27, 1942, first censored by the German occupation authorities, but banned on February 11, 1943, and distributed clandestinely by the resistance movements. The book had a great impact in the United States, whose involvement in the conflict Saint-Exupéry wanted| it was strongly attacked in France by the collaborationist press. This typescript, on watermarked American Esleeck Fidelity Onion Skin paper, shows handwritten erasures and corrections in black ink and pencil| one entire paragraph has been reworked (pp. 177-178). On f. 21 appears the unexpurgated version of the famous sentence about Hitler censored by Gallimard at the request of the Propagandastaffel: "Hitler who started [sic] this demented war.
This typescript is enriched with a beautiful autograph sending signed to Nada de BRAGANCE ("Plume d'Ange") on 2 pages in black pencil: "My little Plume d'Ange, I really need to see you again. I am tired. I have taken a heavy load on my shoulders. And there is no question of being able to live in peace by getting rid of it, nor of being able to breathe by assuming it. Conscience is a strange thing. Obviously it is not a question of living as a husband-wife. That is impossible for me. But the rest is already so, so bitter. And now my little book is coming out. And all the slander and jealousy is coming as usual. You can see it from here, the underworld of the false French of New York that is already stirring. I feel at a thousand signs fermenting the swamp... Ah! Plume d'Ange how sad, disgusted and weary I am! Here is my bear. I do not think any good of it - believe it. I wrote it in the interior disorder. I couldn't say what I wanted to. I beg you to hug me when you get it and read it. I will call you immediately. But say a word over the wire already! If you think it's awful, say so - I don't know myself to be vain. Love to you, Angel Feather. Yes. Also... Antoine. (Typed transcript attached). [Nada de BRAGANCE (1910-1946), wife of a Brazilian prince, frequented Saint-Exupéry during his stay in New York. The nickname "Plume d'Ange" is said to come from her disheveled hair]. The BnF also holds a typed copy of Pilote de guerre that Saint Exupéry gave to the musician Nadia Boulanger, indicating in the dedication that he was offering her "one of the four manuscripts" (Œuvres complètes, II, Pléiade, 2009, p. 1317). Our typing is similar to that of the BnF in format, overall composition, and corrections that bring variations from the published text, even if the two versions remain very close.
PROVENANCE
Nada de Bragance (consignment). Sale Drouot, December 4, 1991 (out of catalog). Christie's Paris sale, November 20, 2007 (n° 96).