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MONTHERLANT Henry de. (189-1972).
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MONTHERLANT Henry de. (189-1972).
autograph MANUSCRIT, [1937]| 4 pages in4, on the back of typescripts and a letter (July 7, 1937).
Response to Georges POUPET, critic for Le Jour newspaper, on Le Démon du Bien (third novel in the Les Jeunes Filles cycle). Poupet regrets "that I have abandoned books, such as Service inutile, in which I expressed myself in my personal name, for novels in which I let characters speak". Montherlant explains this "shift": "It's that I hardly put my nose outside my shell, in today's French society, without being struck with disgust, which I could do nothing but express, if I expressed myself in my own name. But you can't make a work out of indignation and disgust alone"... Because of his upbringing, he has remained very strict about certain things, and he recounts a recent anecdote in a restaurant that outraged him... Finally, he returns to the accent of Service inutile: "France is a compact pond of cowardice. Nothing explodes, because of cowardice. [...] this novel about colonial circles, which you're criticizing me for not publishing, it would always be in that tone. Once again, I was brought up to respect certain orders, certain classes: when I can no longer respect them, I shudder, and I put that shuddering on paper"...
autograph MANUSCRIT, [1937]| 4 pages in4, on the back of typescripts and a letter (July 7, 1937).
Response to Georges POUPET, critic for Le Jour newspaper, on Le Démon du Bien (third novel in the Les Jeunes Filles cycle). Poupet regrets "that I have abandoned books, such as Service inutile, in which I expressed myself in my personal name, for novels in which I let characters speak". Montherlant explains this "shift": "It's that I hardly put my nose outside my shell, in today's French society, without being struck with disgust, which I could do nothing but express, if I expressed myself in my own name. But you can't make a work out of indignation and disgust alone"... Because of his upbringing, he has remained very strict about certain things, and he recounts a recent anecdote in a restaurant that outraged him... Finally, he returns to the accent of Service inutile: "France is a compact pond of cowardice. Nothing explodes, because of cowardice. [...] this novel about colonial circles, which you're criticizing me for not publishing, it would always be in that tone. Once again, I was brought up to respect certain orders, certain classes: when I can no longer respect them, I shudder, and I put that shuddering on paper"...