GENET, Jean

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1500 - 2000 EUR
GENET, Jean
Signed autograph manuscript. S. l., March 1949. 9 p. on 5 double ff. in-8 (17.8 x 11.3 cm), 1 envelope. Signed autograph manuscript entitled " Pour Madame Léonor Fini ". This manuscript presents the first part of the text which will be published the following year, under the title Letter to Leonor Fini. The manuscript presents few corrections and is very close to the published version. Thus, in the incipit Genet writes: "The odor known as pestilential - according to Baudelaire: a "pleasant pestilence" - a well opened nostril recognizes it composed of a thousand intertwined perfumes, but distinct according to plans and cuts - where one would perhaps find ferns, the rose, the corpses of pink flamingos, salamanders, the reeds of the marshes, a people of heavy, healthy and, at the same time, deleterious perfumes. "The only difference with the published version is the disappearance of this passage" according to Baudelaire: a "pleasant pestilence". Further on it is only certain words that vary, for example "appears" becomes "seems" and "Madame" becomes "Mademoiselle". The manuscript corresponds to the first half of the published text and stops at this passage "I wish you, Madame, immense difficulties", which is found word for word in the original edition. Attached: - Letter to Léonor Fini. Paris, Loyau, 1950. In-8 (21.5 x 14.6 cm), red morocco, shirt and half morocco case. Original edition, unnumbered copy. A handwritten note in pencil reads "Exemplaire de Léonor Fini". Rubbed case, split caps (shirt). - Funeral home. Bikini, at the expense of some amateurs, 1947. In-4 (25.1 x 16.3 cm), half black grief. Original edition. One of the 450 copies on pure vellum by Lana (no. 98). The copy is enriched with a beautiful autograph signed from Jean Genêt to Léonor Fini: "to Léonor in whose mind and heart I lie down, rest and sleep, confident. " The first dish is loose, a few stains. Nice set.
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