COCTEAU (Jean).
The Anniversary of Les Mamelles de Tirésias. Without place or date [May-June 1957].
Autograph manuscript signed "Jean Cocteau", 8 pages in-4.
Autograph manuscript signed of an article published in Les Lettres françaises in June 1957: Jean Cocteau celebrates the forty years of the premiere of Les Mamelles de Tirésias which took place in Paris, on June 24, 1917.
The morning of Mamelles remains unforgettable for us like the evening of the other play of Guillaume Apollinaire Couleur du temps [...]. Les Mamelles de Tirésias was [...] the first voluntarily anarchist show, I was going to say the first act of liberation of a poet who could no longer bear the dryness excluding the surprise: the mechanical rabbit playing the drum of which he had made in a preface of Paul Guillaume the symbol of the anticonformism.
