SARTRE Jean-Paul (1905-1980). - Lot 126

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SARTRE Jean-Paul (1905-1980). - Lot 126
SARTRE Jean-Paul (1905-1980). Autograph MANUSCRIT for Le Diable et le Bon Dieu, [1951]; 91 pages on 85 ff. in-4 (27 x 21 cm) in a Moirans-branded paper block cover. First draft and working manuscripts for his play Le Diable et le Bon Dieu. Begun in early 1951, the play was premiered at the Théâtre Antoine on June 7, 1951, directed by Louis Jouvet (with Pierre Brasseur, Jean Vilar, Maria Casarès...), and published in Les Temps modernes in June, July, and August 1951, and in volume by Gallimard in October 1951.), and published in Les Temps modernes in June, July and August 1951, and in a volume published by Gallimard in October 1951. The manuscript, written in blue-black ink on sheets of squared paper written on the front (6 are also written on the back) and sometimes partially filled in, sometimes presents several versions of the same text, as Sartre did not like to cross out and preferred to write his text again on a new sheet of paper. These worksheets sometimes differ greatly from the printed text. Here we have almost the entire tenth scene in Act III (with the exception of the short scene v and the last one), in the ruined village: scene i with Hilda and then Heinrich, scene ii between Hilda and Goetz, scene iii with the same two and Heinrich, and the long scene iv of the confrontation between the former warrior Goetz and the priest Heinrich. We can only give here a brief overview of the interest of this manuscript. In scene i, for example, there is a long tirade by Hilda, which has been crossed out (and taken up again on another page in a shortened version), of which only a three-sentence line remains in the final version: "The one who offended you is no more. I thought he was waiting for you, that he had dressed up to receive you, that he was going to challenge you and prove his victory. That is what excited your anger. Well, you see: your anger will be disappointed, it will meet only emptiness. He no longer cares about you or your bet. He is always absent, attentive to himself; he searches within himself for his temptations and if he doesn't find any he invents them so that he can punish himself for having had them. He struggles against hunger, against thirst, against the desire he has for me; he youths, prays, scourges himself. Whatever evil you want to do to him, you cannot torture him more than he tortures himself; whatever hatred you have for him, you cannot hate him more than he hates himself. Go away, let him do your work for you: he is getting weaker every day. If I were not here to look after him - when he wants me to look after him - I think he would already be dead. He wouldn't even recognize you if he saw you, and you wouldn't be able to recognize him. What's the point of being obstinate?" Let's quote again, in scene iii, this line from Goetz, which disappeared from the final version: "Well, we're all here: you, me, the Devil and the Good Lord. Let's get started.
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