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ROY Claude (1915-1997). MANUSCRIT autographe, Le Malheur d'aimer, [1958] |

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ROY Claude (1915-1997). Autograph manuscript, Le Malheur d'aimer, [1958]| 204 pages in-4 (27 x 21 cm), bound in brown ostrich skin, title and initials C.R. mosaicked in pink calf on the boards, lining and endpapers in grey nubuk, folder and slipcase (Alain Devauchelle).

Complete working manuscript of this novel.
Le Malheur d'aimer was published by Gallimard in 1958. This novel tells the story of a brief but intense three-week love affair between Alain Josseret, an ethnographer, and a young woman named Anna. At the end of the three weeks, Alain has to go back to his team in South America| the day before the last day, Anna disappears.
The manuscript, written in black ink, presents numerous erasures and corrections, as well as additions by blocks, with insertion and pasting of typed passages