COCTEAU Jean - Lot 132

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COCTEAU Jean - Lot 132
COCTEAU Jean Autograph MANUSCRIT signed "Jean Cocteau", Un Conte vrai,[1954]; 4 pages in-4 with blue ballpoint pen with erasures and corrections. This short story appeared in January 1955 in the magazine Amis des bêtes, preceded by the hat "Un conte vrai, inédit de Jean Cocteau". It was included in the third volume of Cocteau's journal, Le Passé défini, and included in the edition of La Pléiade des Oeuvres romanesques complètes under the title La Chatte de M. X. Although he addressed the general public of "Friends of Beasts", Cocteau did not spend a moment in mawkishness, and enjoyed taking his readers back to the scene: "It is right, despite my desire to write some kind text, that I note this story for the friends of the beasts and that once again it proves to them the terrible violence that hides behind the softest furs". The story tells the story of Mr. X., a man without a story who leads a quiet and solitary life with his adorable cat, "neither Siamese, nor Persian, nor anything else suitable for obtaining a medal unless the court considers that grace, cleanliness, decency, and velvet paw deserve to prevail over certificates of high nobility". This is his only company, his only love... "Mr. X. was crazy about his pussy and the pussy seemed to return his love, never leaving him, sleeping near his pillow, eating only if he had prepared his food and purring from morning to night on his shoulder. Mr. X having received a dispatch announcing the death of a parent, he explains to his cat that he must abandon her for a few days. Here is the show that the neighbors will discover shortly afterwards: "Mr. X. was lying in his bed, his pussy hanging on his throat. This open throat, ploughed by claws, was still running with blood. The man's hands had not even tried to defend him. They hung on the linens. No one would have dared to approach the monstrous bush which, we were sure, would die on its victim, would not move from there. And what made the show unbear
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