XXth LITERATURE. - 3 LAS. ROSTAND - SUPERVIELLE... Lot 21

XXth LITERATURE. - 3 LAS. ROSTAND - SUPERVIELLE - MONTHERLANT. - ROSTAND. LAS "à Mon cher poète soldat". 1 p. in-12 and 2 lines. Beautiful letter written after the bombing of Paris during the Great War 14-18: "Your ardent and precise verses are full of movement and indignation. Yes, like nocturnals, they killed women and children for the sheer pleasure of doing evil; and often I remembered my Chanteclerc birds of prey when I heard them buzzing above us over the howling of the Parisian siren." - SUPERVIELLE (Jules). LAS to navigator, writer and publisher Léonce Peillard. June 19, 1948. 1 p. and a half in-4. Supervielle appreciates that the interview faithfully reproduces his own words, and states that he is "in favor of a return to accessible rather than popular poetry, at least as far as I'm concerned. I think there is room these days for a Walt Whitman, who is highly popular (...). You're right to say "the poet" (you say even better than that) "Franco-Uruguayan". I do indeed have both nationalities. In my dreams I see myself intercontinental with the ocean between my legs! - MONTHERLANT (Henri de). LAS to the writer Paul Brach. May 5, 1920. 3 pp. in-12, env. enclosed. Montherlant asks him to announce in the review "L'Œil de bœuf" the release of his book, as it appears at the beginning of June, delayed 6 weeks by the strike, & on the verge of the off-season. My enemies (I have quite a few) are preparing to debunk it; my friends not to breathe a word about it." Expert: Ségolène Beauchamp