ARTAUD (Antonin). Lot n° 35

The magre to the very condition and magre to the unconditioned. Autograph corrections and additions on manuscript dictated by him. 2 pages in-4 on lined paper. Beautiful document. La Magre à la condition même... was published in the n°1 of Marcel Bisiaux's magazine 84 in 1947. In the manuscript the dictated text is in blue ink, a writing certainly feminine but not that of Paule Thévenin (nor of Colette Thomas), the corrections of the hand of Artaud, in black ink and are: of typographical order (jump of line, caesuras, punctuation, underlined words), of the overloaded words, modified or crossed out, and of the autograph additions bringing serious modifications to the text; finally, the title is entirely handwritten of the hand of Artaud. Documents from this period dictated and sometimes improvised by Artaud, offering the trace of the work of rereading, are rare. (See Oeuvres Complètes tome 23, pp. 559-60 where the present document is described).