LELY Gilbert. 9 L.A.S. to Pascal Pia. 1958-1970.... Lot 18

LELY Gilbert. 9 L.A.S. to Pascal Pia. 1958-1970. 10 pages, various formats, approx. Beautiful correspondence about the Marquis de Sade and poetry, and a corrected proof of an erotic poem. - January 6, 1958: on the subject of a few errors in his Vie du Marquis de Sade: "Don't minimize the interest of your fine article, which really touched me; moreover, your remarks about Zoloé are very judicious, and I shall take them into account in a new edition"... - May 30 1961: he begins work on the text of La Nouvelle Justine and Juliette, and would like to borrow Pia's 1797 editions... - February 12, 1966: he is about to publish a collection of poems with Pauvert, and has reworked the poem L'inceste l'été into a new version, L'Épouse infidèle, which he sends to Pia "in order to know your feelings, and whether, through my corrections, I will be able to defy censorship". - September 23, 1966: "I regret that your incredible modesty has so far prevented you from putting together the best of your literary columns. [...] What a solid and precious collection such a book would be! ". - October 13, 1968, thanking Pia for an erudite piece of information on Sade: "What clarity, what exactitude in the notions you indicate: that is the language of literary science, and how far we are from the approximation by which our contemptible contemporaries," such as R. Escarpit, M. Clavel or Étiemble, are known. Clavel or Étiemble; he also evokes Aragon "with his hideous companion, the Thénardier of literature [...] I am not about to forget your politico-literary execution of the unworthy Éluard, who will have disappeared, without understanding what we have known for 40 years (with only a little heart and common sense), that Bolshevism is lies, horror and murder"... E - Enclosed: a proof of the poem "L'inceste l'été" with numerous autograph corrections and additions; and other printed excerpts. Expert : Ségolène Beauchamp