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MALRAUX André (1901-1976).
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MALRAUX André (1901-1976).
Autograph MANUSCRIT, Preface, [1969]| 10 and 4 pages in-4.
Preface to Le Triangle noir.
Le Triangle noir, published by Gallimard in 1970, includes three texts published respectively in 1939, 1947 and 1954, Laclos et les Liaisons dangereuses, Goya en blanc et noir and Saint-Just et la force des choses. In his Preface, written in 1969, Malraux explains why he became interested in these three figures.
The manuscript, in blue ballpoint pen, with numerous erasures and corrections, is paginated in pencil from [1] to 11| some pages are formed by assembling several fragments, sometimes just a few lines long, glued together end-to-end. There are variations with the edited text.
Thus, for the beginning: "Is the end of the eighteenth century one of the periods that hold me back? I don't think so. Nevertheless, in thirty years, chance and friendship have made me reflect on three very different figures, who cast their divergent lights on the darkest crisis of the individual that Europe has known before the one that is now upon us.
Laclos simply poses the problem. As with so many works of our time - not only literary - the reader of Les Liaisons could have said: "It can't go on like this". This is Goya's response
Goya responds, by making the human condition the object of a fundamental accusation, to which he refuses to respond with transcendence| Saint-Just responds, by appealing to the quasi-transcendence that, in his eyes, is the Nation"... Etc.
A set of 4 leaves, paginated "ex 5" to 8, gives a development that will be integrated into the Preface, from: "It remains that all sadism, - and Sade himself shows this even better than Laclos - seems the delirious desire for an unattainable possession", to: "The obsession with the elusive was to quickly raise the question that had been lurking since the beginning of the century: what can Reason do for the individual?
What can Reason do for the individual - what can it do against destiny?
Attached is the corrected typescript (8 pages in-4), with numerous autograph corrections and additions, and collage reworkings.
Also enclosed are 7 autograph working notes (in-16 or in-12), of which we quote the most developed: "The starting point of the preface to Le Triangle Noir is undoubtedly: a civilization that does not want to survive as a civilization is condemned to death. Goya and Laclos as witnesses, Saint-Just as a desperate attempt (at what?)". Plus 2 small autograph bookplates, removed from the manuscript, on Sade and Reason.
OEuvres complètes (Pléiade), vol. VI, pp. 525-529.
Autograph MANUSCRIT, Preface, [1969]| 10 and 4 pages in-4.
Preface to Le Triangle noir.
Le Triangle noir, published by Gallimard in 1970, includes three texts published respectively in 1939, 1947 and 1954, Laclos et les Liaisons dangereuses, Goya en blanc et noir and Saint-Just et la force des choses. In his Preface, written in 1969, Malraux explains why he became interested in these three figures.
The manuscript, in blue ballpoint pen, with numerous erasures and corrections, is paginated in pencil from [1] to 11| some pages are formed by assembling several fragments, sometimes just a few lines long, glued together end-to-end. There are variations with the edited text.
Thus, for the beginning: "Is the end of the eighteenth century one of the periods that hold me back? I don't think so. Nevertheless, in thirty years, chance and friendship have made me reflect on three very different figures, who cast their divergent lights on the darkest crisis of the individual that Europe has known before the one that is now upon us.
Laclos simply poses the problem. As with so many works of our time - not only literary - the reader of Les Liaisons could have said: "It can't go on like this". This is Goya's response
Goya responds, by making the human condition the object of a fundamental accusation, to which he refuses to respond with transcendence| Saint-Just responds, by appealing to the quasi-transcendence that, in his eyes, is the Nation"... Etc.
A set of 4 leaves, paginated "ex 5" to 8, gives a development that will be integrated into the Preface, from: "It remains that all sadism, - and Sade himself shows this even better than Laclos - seems the delirious desire for an unattainable possession", to: "The obsession with the elusive was to quickly raise the question that had been lurking since the beginning of the century: what can Reason do for the individual?
What can Reason do for the individual - what can it do against destiny?
Attached is the corrected typescript (8 pages in-4), with numerous autograph corrections and additions, and collage reworkings.
Also enclosed are 7 autograph working notes (in-16 or in-12), of which we quote the most developed: "The starting point of the preface to Le Triangle Noir is undoubtedly: a civilization that does not want to survive as a civilization is condemned to death. Goya and Laclos as witnesses, Saint-Just as a desperate attempt (at what?)". Plus 2 small autograph bookplates, removed from the manuscript, on Sade and Reason.
OEuvres complètes (Pléiade), vol. VI, pp. 525-529.