COCTEAU Jean - Lot 80

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COCTEAU Jean - Lot 80
COCTEAU Jean Autograph MANUSCRIT of an interview,[Versailles May-June 1939]; 4 pages in-4 (typed attached). On literary creation and writing about his next play The Typewriter. It was in May 1939, at the Hotel Vatel in Versailles, that Cocteau wrote the first version of La Machine à type; after the interruption of the war, and the development of a new version in Perpignan in the summer of 1940, the piece was premiered on April 29, 1941. This is a fictional interview: "This week, in Versailles, where he is staying, Jean Cocteau read several times his new play La Machine à type. We know nothing about this piece, except that the central subject would be the famous case of the anonymous letters from Tulle. When asked, Jean Cocteau replied that his last play Les Parents terribles seemed to him to be someone else's play that he should have written. He added that it was very rare to be able to fully introduce oneself into a theatrical work, that is, to introduce one's own atmosphere. Then he speaks directly: "It happened to me with Orpheus, play - Thomas the impostor, novel - The Terrible Children, novel. My other works are less mixed with my substance and for that I am only slightly responsible. Because, to write, I try to put myself in a state of irresponsibility that leaves me little control. I believe, indeed, that the famous "automatic writing" does not only produce dreamlike and bizarre results. Any work, worthy of the name, is in a way automatic writing. ...] This state of irresponsibility, of awake sleep, resembles (by far) the sleep of nitrous oxide in the dentist. We find ourselves precipitated into an unknown immobile speed, in a kind of crescendo of mysterious nuances. When we wake up, we remember this state but no other details. The same applies to the writing status. I can't tell you, then, why the lines and intrigues follow one another. This is the responsibility of the psychiatrist. Inspiration is an exhalation and setting in motion of deep layers of o
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