Roger PEYREFITTE. 7 L.A.S. and 1 P.A.S.,... - Lot 144 - Ader

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Roger PEYREFITTE. 7 L.A.S. and 1 P.A.S.,... - Lot 144 - Ader
Roger PEYREFITTE. 7 L.A.S. and 1 P.A.S., 1948-1988, various; 14 pages various formats, a few envelopes. 2 L.A.S. on cards at the Librairie Gallimard, book orders (1924); one L.A.S. to Yves Gandon, thanking for an article on Les Amitiés particulières (1945); a dedication a.s. under his portrait. Taormina 5 May 1948 (on the back of 4 postcards) to a friend, about a burglary at his home on Avenue Hoche, evoking a "revenge of the Jesuits", a young man "capable of many things", etc. February 2, 1953, to Marcel Thiébaut, thanking him for his article [on Vesuvius to Mount Etna], "not only because he braided me a crown of real laurels, but because he put back on a pedestal the true god of the Muses, so often replaced today by poor horrors. I evoke, on the horizon of your two pages, the colonnades and sites, as if a new ray of sunlight had come to gild them "... Plus a postcard of the same from Cyrene (May 1953). Rome July 27, 1956, on his stay in Rome: "One gets tired of everything, even getting hard. ...] Rome is the city of bells, but they all play the same tune. When we have the taste for harmony that characterizes us, we are at first intoxicated, excited, we vibrate with this universal jiggle. ...] I rather like this strength that I have to clean up before going back to work. I don't feel disturbed by this kind of images that tormented St. Jerome, and that's good "... Etc. Sending the beginning of his book La Mort d'une mère (1982). On his style, the artists he admires among the Greeks, the Italians of the Renaissance (Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian, Veronese, etc.), the Flemish, the Spanish, the French (Philippe de Champaigne, David, Delacroix, Monet, etc.): "For the modern: Picasso, Dali, Georges Mathieu. ...] I forgot about the wonderful sculptors of the 18th century ... Pajou, Houdon ...". On the translations of his work abroad...
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