ARAGON, Louis Aragon, Louis (1897-1982), (ed.). Journal d'une Poésie Nationale. …

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ARAGON, Louis

Aragon, Louis (1897-1982), (ed.). Journal d'une Poésie Nationale. Lyon 1954. 163 p., 2 ll. Signed with autograph. dedication. Okart. The anthology is introduced with an extensive text by Paul Eluard.

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ARAGON, Louis

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Louis ARAGON (1897-1982). Autograph manuscript of 2 poems, Aline and Ciel de lit; 2pages in-8. These two poems, composed around 1918-1920 and long unpublished, were collected by Aragon in Œuvres poétiques in 1975 as part of the "poèmes écartés de Feu de joie" (t. V). A manuscript had been sent to André Gide (preserved at the Bibliothèque littéraire Jacques Doucet); and Aragon had sent Ciel de lit to Paul Valéry. Let's quote the beginning of Ciel de lit: "The stove sings. "How warm it is tonight! Suddenly a tune comes into my head"... On verso, pencil drawing of a head.

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Louis ARAGON (1897-1982). Autograph poem signed, D'une petite fille massacrée, [1944]; half-page in-fol. Moving poem from La Diane française (Seghers, "Poésie 44", 1945, completed December 30, 1944); one of six unpublished poems in the collection, without prepublication. "The poem was written in memory of Jeannie Chancel, daughter of Jean and Mady Chancel, resistance fighters from Saint-Donat and friends of the Aragon couple. The day after a parachute drop on the night of June 14-15, 1944, supervised by Jean Chancel and in which Aragon and Elsa had taken part on June 15, the Germans organized a punitive operation in Saint-Donat. They looted and massacred. The sick thirteen-year-old girl had stayed with friends when most of the inhabitants had fled. She was raped and died of meningitis on August 24, 1944. In the background is Rimbaud's poem Le Dormeur du val" (Marie-Thérèse Eychart, in Aragon, Œuvres poétiques complètes, Pléiade, t.I, p.1569). The poem comprises four quatrains; the manuscript shows two erasures and corrections. "Vous pourrez revenir ce sera vainainement To outbid hell and the fierce beast You can break down the door with your clubs Germans"...

Estim. 300 - 400 EUR

Louis ARAGON (1897-1982). Autograph manuscript, [1963]; 1page in-4. List of some thirty corrections for Le Fou d'Elsa. Aragon indicates the page numbers, and the changes to be made, mostly spelling or typographical corrections to Arabic and Muslim words: "Islâm (and not Islam)"; "abãm al-Khayâl (and not alâmal-Khayâl), "Contre-chant (and not chanp)"; etc.

Estim. 50 - 60 EUR

[Louis ARAGON]. L'Humanité, special issue, December 1982; in-fol. 16p. Richly illustrated special issue published on the occasion of Aragon's death.

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