SAINT EXUPÉRY, Antoine de

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SAINT EXUPÉRY, Antoine de
Autograph manuscript. [circa 1943]. 7 p. in-4 (27 x 21 cm), on Fidelity Onion Skin paper. First draft of a long letter from Saint Exupéry. "If the machine upsets a world that does not know how to adjust to it, there is obviously a solution, which is to destroy the machine. Saint-Exupéry illustrates his analysis by taking the example of a fictional book he calls " The Diver and the Star", which he calls "Le Scaphandrier et l'étoile" (The Diver and the Star). "The need is what makes me permanent. If I'm Baron de Charlemagne, I need a fortified castle and armour. If I am [...] modern, I need magic and poetry, even though I have the same biological structure as the caveman so close to me, who didn't need it. The only needs are the need for permanence through the mysterious need for ascension. The caveman tends to need Johann Sebastian Bach. Nothing allows me to quantify and codify the need for the increase of our needs, i.e. the tendency to enrich my personality (e.g. thirst, oxygen). I always respond exaggeratedly to man's needs when I raise him. I understand natural adaptation as a conquest. ...] Man is defined by the antinomy need to create - need to be stable ... the state of living equilibrium between these two antinomies is natural. It is not definable by a logical operation. ...] The community will gradually help for the good reason that creation, from now on, is the fruit of the community. " Numbering after the red pencil. PROVENANCE: Anonymous sale, lot 373 (Paris, May 16, 2012). Pinholes, small folds, a few rare spots. Ratures and corrections. Ink test on the back of the last sheet.
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