Paul Eluard.

Poems sent to Gala. April 1930 - August 1934. Precious set of 31 autograph poems addressed to Gala from 1930 to 1934. Published in the collections À toute épreuve, La Vie immédiate and La Rose publique, they were found at Gala in Cadaquès within his correspondence with Eluard. These manuscripts have variants unknown to the publishers of the Pleiade. "These poems are of threefold interest: first, Eluard's choice to send them to Gala, a privileged recipient, shows that they are either poems written more specifically for her, or poems to which Eluard attaches particular importance - those that require Gala's opinion [...] and sometimes that of Dali [...]. Secondly, [...] they offer us a number of variants obviously unknown in the Complete Works in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade. These variants are particularly interesting for the collection A toute épreuve (written at the time of the separation with Gala) for which the version of the Pléiade does not indicate any, the poems [...] constituting undoubtedly the first manuscript. Finally, for some poems, some clues allow to propose a precise date of composition, see the poems of La Rose publique" (Pierre Dreyfus). These poems are the only ones of these three collections reproduced by Pierre Dreyfus in his edition of Paul Eluard's Letters to Gala (1984, pp. 347-367). Detail : Eleven poems published in À toute épreuve (October 1930). 15 pages in-4 or in-8 on 14 sheets of which one is written on the front and back. - A song of porcelain beats hands... Poem written on a letter addressed to Gala, dated "Saturday midnight" [April 1930], cut by Gala. - The violence of the winds of the sea... - It is not necessary to see the reality such as I am... working manuscript, with erasures and corrections. - Pen of clear rain fragile, working manuscript, with erasures and corrections - By their intelligence and their skill... - The simplicity even to write... - Behind me my eyes closed... - A discouraged prison... 3 states of the poem: a working manuscript, a slightly corrected manuscript and a clean-up. - Villages de la lassitude - La montagne la mer et la belle baigneuse, working manuscript This set also includes three autograph pages of Eluard: - a sheet bearing his name and the title of the collection L'amour la poésie (1929) with typographical indications, handwritten and crossed out. - two lists of published titles "From the same author", one going to 1928 and the other, in pencil, to 1932. 3 pages in-4 and in-8. Twelve poems published in La Vie immédiate (June 1932). 11 pages in-12, 1 page in-4 mostly on decorated stationery. - Criticism of the poetry. Sent on July 17, 1931 from Locronan (Finistère). - By reason for a distraught man... - All the trees all their branches... - By retreat it is necessary that the beguinage goes to the fire... - There was the door like a saw... 1 autograph correction - The problem of the calm. - Then/ the natural water... - All rights. - Why do we make them run... - Fatal sun of the number of the living... - Former actor who plays water plays... - She is not there..., addressed February 10, 1932 Eight poems from The Public Rose (December 1934), addressed to Gala between February 1933 and August of the following year. 8 autographed poems, 3 of which are signed; in all 15 pages, most of them in-4. - Poetic objectivity exists only in the succession, in the chain of all the subjective elements of which the poet is, until further notice, not the master, but the slave. [End of February 1933]. Autograph manuscript signed twice, with a strip of paper with 10 verses bearing the notation in pencil by another hand: "to be pasted at the end of the second poem sent." - The Light extinguished, when, by chance, I do not choose the little green horse and the little red man [...]. Passy, February 10, 1933. - The False, the negative lead life to hate itself. [Beginning of February 1934 ?] The manuscript presents variants with the one published in collection in 1934 under a different title: "Good and bad tongues claim that the evil is well done. Thus, the false, the negative force life to hate itself." The manuscript does not include the four final stanzas added later. (OEuvres complètes, I, Pléiade pp. 429-432.) - Un coq à la porte de l'aube / Un coq battant la cloche... [February 1934 ?]. Poem published in collection in 1934 under the title "Le Baiser". - She had a palace built for herself that looked like a river in a forest, because all the regulated appearances of light were buried in mirrors. [February 1934 ? - Heaven often sees itself at night. [August 1934]. On verso, autograph note in pencil: "Thursday. I am leaving. I'm coming back.