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GONCOURT Edmond de (1822 - 1896)
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GONCOURT Edmond de (1822 - 1896)
MANUSCRIT autograph signed "Edmond de Goncourt", À bas le progrès, [1892] 25 ff. in-4 (28 x 21,5 cm), bound in one volume in-4 dark garnet jansenist morocco with title in gilt letters on the upper cover, gilt inner frame, slipcase (Henry-Joseph| slight scuffing on the upper cover).
Complete manuscript of this one-act play.
This one-act "satirical buffoonery", written in the autumn of 1891, was first performed at the Théâtre-Libre on January 16, 1893, and published the same year by Charpentier et Fasquelle. Goncourt dedicated it to Alphonse Daudet.
It is a satire of the political mores of the Third Republic.
The play features three actors: "The father", with the "physiognomy of an old romantic painter" whose house has been robbed (played by
Pons-Arles), his daughter "ironic, with something in her person of boyishness" (Mrs. Valdey), and a thief with the "cold gaiety of pincesans- rire" (played by André Antoine). In the Preface (dated December 1892), Goncourt indicates that he wished to write "a dramatic work with French qualities", in the tradition of Beaumarchais, and he criticizes the influence of Scandinavian theater on young writers, "literary servants of Tolstoy and Ibsen".
The manuscript is carefully written in brown ink on buff paper| on the left side of the pages, the names of the characters, and on the right side the text and the didascalies. There are numerous erasures and corrections. The manuscript, paginated in blue pencil, was used for printing: it includes a flyleaf, with the name and address of the author| the title page, with correction to the subtitle (crossing out "Satire" and noting "Satirical buffoonery") (p. 1)| the dedication and the Preface (not paginated, 2 p.)| the list and description of the Characters (p. 2)| the text of the play (p. 3-25).
On a leaf added at the head, Goncourt has pasted his ex-libris (engraved by
Gavarni), and inscribed in red ink: "Manuscript on which was printed the play performed at the Théâtre Libre, January 16, 1893. Edmond de Goncourt".
PROVENANCE Edmond de Goncourt (bookplate). Goncourt Library. Modern books (sale 5-10 April 1897, n° 862).
A L.A.S. "Jean" from Jean COCTEAU to Joseph KESSEL, 1927, with a small drawing (1 p. in-8) is enclosed.
MANUSCRIT autograph signed "Edmond de Goncourt", À bas le progrès, [1892] 25 ff. in-4 (28 x 21,5 cm), bound in one volume in-4 dark garnet jansenist morocco with title in gilt letters on the upper cover, gilt inner frame, slipcase (Henry-Joseph| slight scuffing on the upper cover).
Complete manuscript of this one-act play.
This one-act "satirical buffoonery", written in the autumn of 1891, was first performed at the Théâtre-Libre on January 16, 1893, and published the same year by Charpentier et Fasquelle. Goncourt dedicated it to Alphonse Daudet.
It is a satire of the political mores of the Third Republic.
The play features three actors: "The father", with the "physiognomy of an old romantic painter" whose house has been robbed (played by
Pons-Arles), his daughter "ironic, with something in her person of boyishness" (Mrs. Valdey), and a thief with the "cold gaiety of pincesans- rire" (played by André Antoine). In the Preface (dated December 1892), Goncourt indicates that he wished to write "a dramatic work with French qualities", in the tradition of Beaumarchais, and he criticizes the influence of Scandinavian theater on young writers, "literary servants of Tolstoy and Ibsen".
The manuscript is carefully written in brown ink on buff paper| on the left side of the pages, the names of the characters, and on the right side the text and the didascalies. There are numerous erasures and corrections. The manuscript, paginated in blue pencil, was used for printing: it includes a flyleaf, with the name and address of the author| the title page, with correction to the subtitle (crossing out "Satire" and noting "Satirical buffoonery") (p. 1)| the dedication and the Preface (not paginated, 2 p.)| the list and description of the Characters (p. 2)| the text of the play (p. 3-25).
On a leaf added at the head, Goncourt has pasted his ex-libris (engraved by
Gavarni), and inscribed in red ink: "Manuscript on which was printed the play performed at the Théâtre Libre, January 16, 1893. Edmond de Goncourt".
PROVENANCE Edmond de Goncourt (bookplate). Goncourt Library. Modern books (sale 5-10 April 1897, n° 862).
A L.A.S. "Jean" from Jean COCTEAU to Joseph KESSEL, 1927, with a small drawing (1 p. in-8) is enclosed.