GRACQ Julien (1910-2007) Lot n° 46

Set consisting of notebooks, handwritten notes and letters Various dates and formats. Set composed of handwritten shavings, notebooks, handwritten notes, letters. - Autograph notes showing the multiple facets of Julien GRACQ. - An in-8 notebook with 4 autograph pp. In the introduction to these pages, Gracq notes: "literature is hardly separable from the conversation about literature. The texts that follow correspond to rather diverse modes of this conversation". Follow some words on Proust, Gide, Céline, existentialism...; - A notebook in-12 with 5 handwritten pp. describing a chess game; - An autograph plan of a text on chess "La recherche de l'absolu" (2 pp. in-8); - An autograph plan of a conference on Surrealism (4 pp. in-8). Incomplete, pages numbered from 3 to 6; - 4 autograph pp. including a fragment of Aubrac's libretto, composed in 1995, of Antoine Bonnet's cycle La Terre habitable; - An autograph letter signed by José Corti, dated January 11, 1947, concerning The Fishing King, its adaptation by Jean-Louis Barrault and the intervention of Valentine Hugo in his favour; - A photograph of Julien Gracq; - Prose pour l'étranger. 1952, paperback. Original edition; - José Corti. In-12, paperback. Rare first edition limited to 63 numbered copies.