Lot n° 130
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Raymond ABELLIO (1907-1986). 30 L.A.S., 1948-1965, to Yvonne - Lot 130
Raymond ABELLIO (1907-1986). 30 L.A.S., 1948-1965, to Yvonne JUILLET; 48 pages in-8 or in-4 (including 3 dactyl. with autogr. additions, one incomplete from the beginning).
Important friendly, literary, philosophical and artistic correspondence.
Yvonne JUILLET was a painter, and a pupil of the painter Léon Detroy; she was the niece of Albert Thibaudet, and a friend of Jean Paulhan. Most of this correspondence dates from the years 1949 to 1951, when Abellio was in exile in Switzerland. The letters are often signed with the initials "R.A." or with his real first name "Georges" (R. Abellio being the pseudonym of Georges Soulès). He encourages Yvonne for her painting. He talks about his life in exile, his precarious health, his books and his works on the Bible, his readings, his steps to be able to return to France, etc. Both share an interest in esoteric research. We can only give here a quick overview of these letters, often long.
October 9 and 11, 1948, information and useful addresses for Yvonne Juillet's artistic activity; he recommends her to a textile manufacturer... 24.XII.1948. "I work hard, pushing as much as possible during the free hours. I would like to publish my work on the Bible (the manuscript, that is, because the publishing deadlines, alas!...) Les Yeux d'E. [Les Yeux d'Ézéchiel are open] are in press. [...] all the beautiful projects that I had made to become an eminent aesthetician fell to the water"; he speaks about the Garden, "so nice"... March 7, 1949, about the book of Georges Hilaire, The Useless Laurels, "on aesthetics or rather on "a policy of the fine arts". [...] It is a kind of overview, complete and reasonable, of what France should do at this time". Paulhan reads the manuscript... October 15, 1949. The publication of Ezekiel is delayed... "I sent a paper to Paulhan on Lucifer. I hope he will publish it in the Cahiers de la Pléiade. [...] It is a kind of manifesto, which may not please many, nor him, Paulhan. [...] It is necessary to create some levels and to throw away all the heterogeneous paperwork that clutters the table. It is not good to have too many projects. [...] I met a young girl of 17 who is starting out in your job: she has been painting abstract art spontaneously until now. I heard that Coco Chanel gave her some sensational tips. Would you like (if you don't already have it) an introduction to said Chanel? Her best friend lives here and will give me that for you [...] I am not homesick, but I would like a bath in Parisian electricity, without Parisians. [...] I haven't read anything interesting for three months, except Merleau-Ponty, which I'll pick up again in a while. "I have been obliged for the last six months to do quite a lot of interior work [...] I am at the point where everything in me is organized around the problem of the woman, because it is undoubtedly the most important [...] the greatest requirement, touching here, as everywhere, on the greatest fidelity, one can only move forward by strongly deciding to accept nothing but the side of the Absolute. [I am working on the Pit of Babel. It will be long"... May 30, 1951. "Heavy solitude, yes. But heavy cohabitation too. We are already nomads. We are the new Israelites, and we will see it well when our temples are destroyed, from the Point du Jour to Charenton "... June 27. "I read books of metaphysics. [Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Jaspers, etc., before coming back to SPINOZA, who is going to become a very great man again, the only profound moralist of the West. [I have had a disappointing experience in Buddhism for three months. No, it is not for me. Even Zen, which I think I understand (intellectually), does not hold me, body and soul... Etc.
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