Lot n° 102
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GIDE André (1869-1951). - Lot 102
GIDE André (1869-1951).
2 autograph MANUSCRIPTS from the Diary: 1934 and July 35-December 35; 2 notebooks of 137 pages in-8 (18 x 12 cm) and 43 pages in-12 (16.5 x 10 cm), from The Canvas, original soft bindings in beige cloth.
Two precious notebooks of André Gide for his Journal, partly unpublished. Notebook "1934". It consists of 137 numbered pages, plus the back covers and the unnumbered endpapers. It is written in black ink on the front of the lined sheets of paper, with notes and additions written on the facing page; from July 23, the notebook being full, Gide uses the head-to-tail notebook of pages 136 to 70. It follows the notebook 64 (gamma 1629) kept at the Bibliothèque littéraire Jacques Doucet, and corresponds to pages 448-477 of volume II of the Journal in the Sagaert edition of the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade. There are numerous variants with the text published and revised by Gide for the edition, as well as erasures and corrections, and passages marked with red pencil, as well as many unpublished pages. This notebook was begun on February 6 in Syracuse, and the last entry is noted in Cuverville on October 1. Gide tells of his stay in Syracuse; notes are added in Cuverville, Manosque, Nice (an evening with Paul Valéry), Cabris, Paris, Karlsbad (a cure in the spa town), Prague (August 5, impressions of this "very strange city"), Ascona ("Everything here is bathed in a splendid azure") and Arona, Nice and Bormes, and finally Cuverville. He talks about his work on his novel Geneviève and then Robert; He notes his readings (Dos Passos, Shakespeare, Hölderlin, Voltaire, Racine, Lamennais, Zola, Goethe, Platen, Schiller, Descartes, Balzac), reflections on music (Bach and Chopin) and on literature (Goethe and Voltaire, the diction of verse, Baudelaire), reactions to politics (visit to the Mostra fascista, the execution of the person responsible for the Reichstag fire, the February days, Hitler's Germany, communism, nationalism, the situation in the U.Several pages are unpublished and have not been included in the text of the Diary. "But inadmissible are all, almost all, the pages written in view of my Nouvelles Nourritures. A project that I am definitely abandoning. While I thought, on the contrary, that I should abandon Genevieve. I will be able to pour this into that. (February 6) About the young students of a "priests' college" on a walk: "I can imagine what instruction will be given to these dunces; what seeds to germinate on this soil..." (February 8). "Mephisto plays Goethe's game; but it is Goethe who holds the cards and, to play, he does not rely on Mephisto" (February 11, 3 lines crossed out at the end). Following the entry concerning the execution of Van der Lubbe (alleged arsonist of the Reichstag): "Doesn't this strengthen all the suspicions one could have and would nothing else explain the enigmatic attitude of Van der Lubbe during the whole trial, his prostration, his mutism, his downcast looks, and even this abundant salivation [...] that a slow poisoning by arsenic"... (February 21). Notes on Racine and the phrase "To others!" (id.).
The entry about the suicide rumor (March 30) continues with a long, unpublished development relating his discussion in the evening with Marc Allégret, about this rumor, about remarks attributed to him in a pseudo-interview, and about false news in the newspapers, ending thus: "I have enough enemies in the press to be fairly certain that they will only give wind to what can hope to harm me. His schedule and itinerary from April 18 to 28, from Cabris to Tende, Sermione, Verona, Riva, Merano and Zurich. On May 18, reaction to an article about him in L'Action française. On May 22, in Cuverville, development about a veronica flower; then long entry (p. 79-85) about an "embryo of dialogue" with Paul Valéry, reported in the newspapers, where Gide is said to have declared: "If I were prevented from writing, I would kill", then about an article written to support Les Frères Karamazov edited by Copeau, thus concluding: "Have I not exposed myself to the reproach of having wanted to 'fall' Balzac for having simply written that I preferred Dostoiewsky to him? And that, I believe, by Thibaudet himself. In these conditions, it is better to keep silent; or, at least, not to give one's prose to the newspapers." The entry "Wednesday, July 11. Karlsbad 10 p.m." relates his journey by train from Basel, and the first relations made on the train with a "Swedish rabbi" and "a Russian-Swedish Jewish couple"... Another account of the beginning of the stay in Karlsbad (July 13, then July 17) was not retained, nor was a reaction to an "anti-Christian" letter from Ruyters (July 14), followed by a lengthy discussion of the "anti-Christian" letter (July 15).
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