Lot n° 196
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Philippe SOUPAULT (1897-1990). L.A.S., January... - Lot 196 - Ader
Philippe SOUPAULT (1897-1990). L.A.S., January 11, 1956; 4 pages in-4.
Important biographical and poetry letter, answers to a questionnaire on his work, for a young magazine. His correspondent does not have to apologize: "I congratulate you on the contrary for your courage and your audacity. Be even more courageous and daring and make fun of the pontiffs of my age"... He then answers his questions: "I wrote 14 books of poems", of which he gives all the titles and dates: from Aquarium in 1917, to Sans Phares in 1954, the 3rd one being Les Champs Magnétiques in 1920... He wrote "several novels: Le Bon Apôtre, A la dérive, Les Frères Durandeau, En joue!The Heart of Gold, The Last Nights of Paris, The Moribunds, Lost Bodies, The Great Man, The Negro "... He also wrote several essays, "it's scary", on the Douanier Rousseau, Apollinaire, William Blake, Uccello, Baudelaire, Lautréamont, Lurçat, Labiche... He lists his translations of Shakespeare, and Russian literature (Gogol and Dostoyevsky), his plays, and his 8 books of memories, from Histoire d'un blanc (The story of a white man) to Je vous aime (I love you). And I do not indicate my projects, which are even more numerous "... He finally lists all his publishers, and answers questions about contemporary poetry: " I think that poetry, in our days and nights, has never been more present, more powerful, more aggressive. I think that poetry is infiltrating everywhere: posters, stalls, radio, cinema [...]. Poetry is the only means [...] which allows us to look at the marvelous and formidable time [...] that we begin to live, the time of the atom, more shattering than the one which saw the man to discover the fire "... He gives his definition of poetry: " It is the poetry which allows us to be seeing ", and the names of his favorite authors: " Rimbaud, Lautréamont, Philippe Soupault (the poet born in 1897). Can we speak of a poetic school nowadays? No. There is no poetic school. There is a movement, very strong, a current but no school"...
A copy of Soupault's Odes (Paris, P. Seghers, 1946), printed at 650 numbered copies, is attached.
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