COCTEAU Jean - Lot 124

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COCTEAU Jean - Lot 124
COCTEAU Jean 4 L.A.S. "Jean Cocteau" and a TAPUSCRIT signed with autograph corrections, 1952-1954, to Marc-Gilbert GUILLAUMIN dit MARC'O; 4 and 3 pages in-4. St Jean Cap Ferrat September 9, 1952. He sends him an article: "If you are interested in the article, publish it"... - The TAPUS CRI T, External Use, encourages freedom of creation and the renewal of the artistic scene: "Youth, and they are right, cannot and must not resolve to move from the stage to the room. From acting to orchestra seats. It is movement. The trap that threatens her is the School. As soon as a movement becomes a School, it freezes and the artist stands up and sits down. It's difficult to live upright, to eat upright, to sleep upright, I'll give you that. A Movement almost always comes to dogma, even that of freedom, which quickly takes on the appearance of slavery. Free not to be free. That's the American formula. Because iconoclastic youth carve out an idol of results for themselves. Arriving where? What time is it? I'm asking you to. We're not leaving or coming. We are"... Scratching at Mauriac's passing , he ends with a quatrain, also entitled Usage externe: "I can't resist the fall of the bodies very well/My soul sits between two chairs/ At my guest table, I follow the number 13/And sleep obstructs me with its old decorations". The article will appear in issue 3 of the magazine Le ulèvement de la jeunesse, founded by Marc'O]. - September 28, 1952. "I am sure you have guessed very well that my reserves are not reserves but are a mechanism of effluents that disappear (whose effectiveness disappears) as soon as they are noticed. I'm always afraid, one morning, out of distraction from shaving my antennas. Did you know that a sick ear grows hair to defend itself. It is likely that I will die standing up".... And about his article: "I did a very big job here. ...] The article was above all a proof of the friendship I have with you. A sign"... Saturday[1954]. After a missed appointment: "I c
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