RILKE RAINER MARIA: (1875-1926) Bohemian-Austrian... Lot 662

RILKE RAINER MARIA: (1875-1926) Bohemian-Austrian Novelist and Poet. Scarce Autograph annotations in the hand of Rainer Maria Rilke, two pages, on a 5.5 x 4 page (13.5 cm x 10.5 cm), part in French and part in German. Rilke cleanly annotates `Jacques Sindral, Attirance de la Mort´, below he adds and crosses `Paul Valéry, Eupalinos´, and to the bottom of the front page `Das ganze grosse Werk des, Marcel Proust!´ ("All the great work of Marcel Proust!"). To the verso Rilke annotates three more writers and works `Valery Larbaud´s, Amants, Heureux Amants..´, and two more in German, mentioning Paul Morand, Giraudoux, Philippe Soupault and Louis Aragon. The present autograph note was written during the last year of his life [circa 1925-1926] VG   Jacques Sindral was the author of Talleyrand. Paul Valery (1871-1945) French Poet and Philosopher. Valery wrote in 1923 Eupalinos ou l´Architecte Marcel Proust (1871-1922) French Novelist and Essayist. Best known for his major novel A la Recherche du Temps Perdu (`In search of Lost Time´) Valery Larbaud (1881-1957) French Writer. Author of Amants, Heureux Amants (1921) Paul Morand (1888-1976) French Writer and Diplomat Jean Giraudoux (1882-1944) French Writer and Diplomat Philippe Soupault (1897-1990) French Writer, Poet and Journalist Louis Aragon (1897-1982) French Writer