CIORAN Emil M. (1911-1995).

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CIORAN Emil M. (1911-1995).
Autograph MANUSCRIT, [De l'inconvénient d'être né]; about 190 pages mostly in-4 (some cut out) in 2 spiral notebooks in-4 (27 x 21 cm) then in sheets. Working manuscript of his great book De l'inconvénient d'être né (Gallimard, 1973). On two yellow spiral notebooks from the Librairie-papeterie Joseph Gibert, numbered I and II, Cioran wrote his work in blue ballpoint pen on the front of the leaves, paginated in green pen (1-6 in blue) from 1 to 63 then from 64 to 132 (no p. 90, one [101 verso], plus 2 added leaves numbered 22 and 23 between pp. 116 and 116a); the rest on loose-leaf spiral-bound notebooks is paginated in green from 133 to 170 (no p. 163), then two folios 171 (one of them coming from an in-8 block), 4 unpaginated folios (three of them double-sided), 8 folios paginated 38 to 45 (with a small folio 175 inserted after p. 38), and a small folio 179. Cioran shapes his book, which we see here finding its almost definitive order Cioran divides his manuscript into sections, which are numbered in Roman numerals in red pen, starting at the top of the first page with section II (pages 1-14); at the end of section III (p. 15-33), Cioran has noted the number IV with the subtitle Déambulation, followed by an addition (number of pages or thoughts?); section V of the manuscript (pp. 34-43) will in fact be split between several sections; hence a shift: section VI of the manuscript (p. 44-63) corresponds to section V of the book, section VII (p. 64-80) to VI, section VIII (p. 81-116a) to VII; on page 116a, Cioran noted the number IX with the subtitle Révolutions, and the two pages reported 22-23 give the end of section VIII of the book; section X of the manuscript (p. 117-132) corresponds to section IX of the book, section XI (pp. 133-159) to section X; from page 159 onwards, Cioran did not mark any more divisions, but the end of the file (whose pagination is heterogeneous) roughly corresponds to sections XI and XII of the book, in a still unordered version. Some thoughts are marked to be moved, like the fourth one on page 1, which will go from section II to section IV (another one will replace it in the book), or to be eventually deleted, like this one (p. 3) marked with three question marks in red pen: "Doubt is not a [result] outcome, it is a predestination". Sometimes, Cioran deleted such a thought by cutting in his manuscript, sometimes sticking it somewhere else: there are a good thirty pages cut in this way. Other deleted or moved thoughts are crossed out or crossed out in the manuscript; others are circled; others are marked Revolutions (subtitle envisaged for section VIII). In some places, Cioran refers to pages of his manuscript to mark the insertion of such and such a passage. Some thoughts are abundantly corrected, sometimes in red or green pen or in pencil, especially towards the end of the manuscript. Some seem to have remained unpublished.
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