Le combat, autograph manuscript [ca. 1925-1930]; on 4 folio pages of 2 double-sided pages, in blue ink.
Draft of a short story from his youth.
The main character is named André. The text, written and completed, begins under the sun: "André stretches. The sun burns despite the thick foliage under which he has set up his garden chair. His book has slipped on the green lawn. The gesture of picking it up is useless, it is only a novel and its heroes are of so little interest to him!"... It ends with this notation: "Sunset - head in the wind - frenzy of joy - thinks he would suffer to see them like this - she aches."
PROVENANCE Fernande Gontier (Sotheby's Paris sale, 21 May 2008, No. 86).
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