André GIDE. Autograph manuscript, with erasures, corrections - Lot 202

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André GIDE. Autograph manuscript, with erasures, corrections - Lot 202
André GIDE. Autograph manuscript, with erasures, corrections and additions. 18 pp. ½ in-folio (with a few additions to two versos, including one leaf of an in-4 notebook, pinned). Brown and then black ink on double or single sheets of "Polleri" watermarked laid paper with slender stag, characteristic of Gide. Precious manuscript of his lecture given on April 25, 1914 at the Théâtre du Vieux Colombier, dedicated to Charles Baudelaire and Théophile Gautier. "Ladies and Gentlemen. Of all the admirable poetic pleiad that the romantic fever] It is fashionable today to disparage romanticism; for my part I hold it in secret horror, I say secret, because rather than protesting against it, I am content to react against it by works []. Baudelaire felt his essential novelty but did not manage to define it. It is there the drama of his life []. Harmony, with Baudelaire, he never accepts it all acquired, he obtains it, he imposes it, conquers it [] ". In November 1913, Gide had inaugurated the series of lectures on poetry with a speech devoted to Verlaine and Mallarmé. Thereafter, in April 1914, he gave this conference, devoted mainly to Baudelaire, whom he praises, and to Gautier, whom he denounces. He also evokes Vigny, Musset, Lamartine, Hugo, Banville, Lecomte de Liste, Hérédia, etc. At the end of the manuscript, Gide evokes his imminent departure for Turkey, with Ghéon, by the Orient Express and hopes to have time to "jump" on his train. Later, he reused some passages of this conference, notably to write a preface to Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal. Attached is a transcription with an interesting typed critical apparatus of the text. 34 pp. in-4.
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