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Gracq, Julien (1910-2007)

Julien GRACQ

Traduit de l'allemand en français
Écrivain

Languages

French

Pays

France

Birth

27 juillet 1910

Death

22 décembre 2007

Other names

格拉克
GELAKE
POIRIER Louis
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  2. "d'une grande richesse et d'un éclairage très singulier..."
    Julien GRACQ
    "d'une grande richesse et d'un éclairage très singulier..."
    Autograph Bristol, dated and signed, addressed to Roland Cailleux, thanking him for sending his latest work
    S. n.|s. l. s. d. [circa 1975]|15.50 x 11 cm|une feuille
    Autograph card of 11 lines signed by Julien Gracq, addressed to Roland Cailleux regarding the sending of his latest work (possibly A moi-même inconnu, published in 1978), for which Julien Gracq congratulates him: "... ouvrage d'une grande richesse et d'un éclairage très singulier..." expressing an unusual sense of complicity between reader and writer: "... un courant de sympathie s'établit ici, entre l'auteur et le lecteur, qui ne se rencontre que rarement..."
    A fine tribute from Julien Gracq, acknowledging and appreciating the sensitivity and talent of Roland Cailleux.
    €480
  4. Préférences
    Julien GRACQ
    Préférences
    José Corti|Paris 1961|12 x 19 cm|broché
    Partly first edition on ordinary paper.
    A pleasant copy.
    Autograph presentation inscription, dated and signed by Julien Gracq to Professor Georges Blin: "... avec le cordial souvenir de son lecteur fidèle et attentif."
    Georges Blin, a specialist in the works of Baudelaire and Stendhal, was a prominent literary critic and academic. He was among those, including Vladimir Jankélévitch and Jean Wahl, who sat on the Sorbonne committee that examined Emmanuel Lévinas’s doctoral thesis, Totalité et infini. He also served as director of the Jacques Doucet Literary Library of the Universities of Paris (Sorbonne, 1961–1988), held the Chair of Modern French Literature at the Collège de France (1965–1988), and was later Professor Emeritus at the Collège de France.
    €600
  7. Carte postale autographe adressée à son proche ami et monographe Ariel Denis : "j'avais décidément raison de vous recommander une saine stratégie syndicale..."
    Julien GRACQ
    Carte postale autographe adressée à son proche ami et monographe Ariel Denis : "j'avais décidément raison de vous recommander une saine stratégie syndicale..."
    s. n.|No Location s. d. [1981]|15 x 10.5 cm|Une carte postale

    Autograph postcard signed and addressed to his friend Ariel Denis from his summer residence in Vendée, 22 lines in black ink.

    The postcard shows a general view of the coastal cliffs of Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez in Vendée.

    Julien Gracq expresses his satisfaction with the advice he had given his friend, while lamenting the petty calculations of administrative life: "j'avais décidément raison de vous recommander une saine stratégie syndicale : faute ce cet appui je crains qu'il n'y ait plus de belle carrière dans l'enseignement ! J'espère tout de même que la stabilité au moins va venir couronner vos efforts (il y en a un de ma part sous le beau style ! malgré les vacances)"

    The writer then mentions a televised adaptation of Wagner's *Das Rheingold* he recently watched: "bonne direction d'acteurs, costumes qui en définitive ne gênent pas, décors plutôt catastrophiques, aussi bien le barrage style Génie Rural, que le Walhalla dont on espère tout de même qu'il n'a pas épuisé l'imagination du décorateur. Mis à part l'excellent jeu des acteurs, que la télévision met en relief, il n'y pas de quoi se récrier. (Comme vous je ne pourrai voir le reste du Ring, et je m'en consolerai ! )"

    Julien Gracq ends with a final recommendation to his friend: "tâchez d'aller voir Saint François du Désert que j'ai manqué autrefois et dont Barrès dit merveille."

    €500
  9. "Pourquoi la littérature... a-t-elle tant de mal au contraire à considérer la réalité, si le besoin s'en fait sortir?"
    Julien GRACQ
    "Pourquoi la littérature... a-t-elle tant de mal au contraire à considérer la réalité, si le besoin s'en fait sortir?"
    Autograph postcard signed by Julien Gracq addressed to his close friend and monographer Ariel Denis about his reading of James Joyce's Ulysses
    Sion-sur-l'Océan [Sion-sur-l'Océan] 13 Août [ca 1985]|15 x 10 cm|une carte postale
    Autograph postcard signed by Julien Gracq, (19 lines in black ink), addressed to his friend and monographer Ariel Denis, written from his Vendée retreat, on the verso of a photographic reproduction showing the Sion-sur-Océan coast from aerial view.
    Julien Gracq discusses his reading of Joyce and compares the Irish landscapes and climate to those of Vendée : "Ici, aucune trace des brumes d'Irlande, il fait inaltérablement beau, sans même un orage..." (Here, no trace of Irish mists, the weather is unalterably beautiful, without even a storm...) and inquires about his friend's professional future : "Comment s'arrangent vos perspectives universitaires pour l'année à venir? Problème qui je sais, assombrit toujours un peu vos fins de vacances et dont j'espère qu'il va se régler à votre satisfaction." (How are your university prospects working out for the coming year? A problem which I know always casts a slight shadow over your vacation endings and which I hope will be resolved to your satisfaction.)

    €350
  11. Lettrines 2
    Julien GRACQ
    Lettrines 2
    José Corti|Paris 1974|12 x 19 cm|broché
    First edition on regular paper.
    A well-preserved copy, despite the spine and covers being slightly and marginally sunned, as is often the case.
    Inscribed by Julien Gracq to the stage director, playwright, and writer Simone Benmussa on the half-title page.
    Literary advisor to the Jean-Louis Barrault – Madeleine Renaud Company, then, in 1957, editor-in-chief of the Cahiers Renaud-Barrault, Simone Benmussa also headed the cultural department and the Cahiers of the Renaud-Barrault Company at the Théâtre de l’Odéon. She adapted for the stage works by her friend Nathalie Sarraute, as well as by Pierre Klossowski, Jean Cocteau, Gertrude Stein... She was the partner of actress Erika Kralik.

    €400
  12. "J'ai surtout revu des films de Tati, et je me suis beaucoup ennuyé, dans une salle déserte, au film de Mme Sagan."
    Julien GRACQ
    "J'ai surtout revu des films de Tati, et je me suis beaucoup ennuyé, dans une salle déserte, au film de Mme Sagan."
    Important autograph letter signed by Julien Gracq addressed to his close friend and monographer Ariel Denis offering him to be the author of his biography in Seghers' collection Poètes d'aujourd'hui and on the films he has recently seen
    Paris s. d. [1978]|14.50 x 20.50 cm|une feuille
    Important autograph letter signed by Julien Gracq, 53 lines in black ink, addressed to his close friend and monographer Ariel Denis, establishing him as his biographer.
    Julien Gracq expresses his regret that his friend Ariel Denis was not selected, despite his intervention, by the Berlin Academy to teach: "Je vous avais recommandé de mon mieux mais je doute que cela ait été en Allemagne d'une grande efficacité... Je sais d'ailleurs que, comme vous le pressentiez, les concurents étaient en nombre." ["I recommended you as best I could but I doubt that was very effective in Germany... I know moreover that, as you suspected, there were many competitors."]
    To help his friend, the author of Rivage des Syrtes suggested to publisher Seghers, who wanted to publish a work about him in his famous "Poètes d'aujourd'hui" collection, the name of Ariel Denis, having had no news from the first biographer considered for this publication: "Ils me demandent de leur suggérer un nom. J'ai indiqué celui de Lautrat... Et j'ai indiqué le vôtre, ne sachant bien sûr aucunement si un travail de ce genre pourrait vous plaire... Il va de soi que si Seghers s'adressait à vous, vous devez être absolument libre d'accepter ou de refuser." ["They ask me to suggest a name. I indicated Lautrat's... And I indicated yours, not knowing of course at all whether work of this kind might please you... It goes without saying that if Seghers approached you, you must be absolutely free to accept or refuse."]
    He also hopes to see his friend again soon before the summer holidays: "... si je ne vous revois pas avant juillet, je vous souhiate des vacances à la fois paisibles et laborieuses, en comptant vous revoir d'ici l'automne." ["...if I don't see you again before July, I wish you holidays that are both peaceful and productive, counting on seeing you again by autumn."]
    He concludes his letter with his judgments as an informed cinephile: "J'ai surtout revu des films de Tati, et je me suis beaucoup ennuyé, dans une salle déserte, au film de Mme Sagan." ["I mainly rewatched Tati films, and I was very bored, in a deserted theater, by Mme Sagan's film."]
    At Julien Gracq's instigation, Ariel Denis would indeed accept Seghers' proposal to publish a volume in his "Poètes d'aujourd'hui" collection about the author of Au château d'Argol, thereby becoming one of his best and most remarkable biographers.

    €1,200
  13. "je vous enverrai les Carnets du grand chemin"
    Julien GRACQ
    "je vous enverrai les Carnets du grand chemin"
    Autograph postcard signed by Julien Gracq addressed to his close friend and monographer Ariel Denis
    Saint-Florent le Vieil [Saint-Florent-le-Vieil] 31 Décembre 1991|14 x 9.50 cm|une carte postale + une enveloppe
    Autograph postcard signed by Julien Gracq comprising 21 lines addressed to his friend and monographer Ariel Denis, written in black felt-tip pen from his Vendée home in Saint Florent le Vieil, on the verso of a photographic reproduction showing the Benedictine abbey of Mont-Glonne in 1830.
    Envelope included.
    Julien Gracq knows his friend Ariel Denis is a skiing enthusiast: "I'm not quite sure where this card will reach you: no doubt you are grappling with cross-country skiing problems in this season prone to avalanches: I do hope nonetheless that you are being careful."
    He promises him his next work: "... In any case I will send you Les Carnets du grand chemin in about a month" and encourages his friend: "I hope you are working vigorously to clear the ground on that new novelistic life you told me about. I am quite curious about it."
    Finally, the Vendée hermit extends his wishes for the coming year.
    €350
  15. "... ma seule objection étant l'adjectif à la mode prégnant qui me paraît à proscrire absolument dès qu'il ne s'agit plus de femmes enceintes".
    Julien GRACQ
    "... ma seule objection étant l'adjectif à la mode prégnant qui me paraît à proscrire absolument dès qu'il ne s'agit plus de femmes enceintes".
    Autograph postcard signed by Julien Gracq addressed to his close friend and monographer Ariel Denis
    Sion-sur-l'Océan [Sion-sur-l'Océan] s. d. [circa 1995]|15 x 10.50 cm|une carte postale
    Autograph postcard signed by Julien Gracq of 20 lines addressed to his friend and biographer Ariel Denis, written in black felt-tip pen, on the verso of a photograph representing the castle of la Flocellière in Vendée, not far from his apartment in Sion-sur-l'Océan.
    Julien Gracq congratulates Ariel Denis on the accuracy of his latest article: "... I find your review excellent and particularly understanding..." although he offers a slight and humorous caveat: "... my only objection being the fashionable adjective pregnant (word underlined) which seems to me to be absolutely proscribed as soon as it no longer concerns pregnant women".
    The author of "Au château d'Argol" shows confidence in his friend's future: "... Perhaps reviews of this quality will open access to a door at éditions du Sorbier for you?" while remaining cautious and modest about his own: "...I refuse to hope too much... finally, some positive turn of events will occur one day in this quest! "
    Finally, Julien Gracq evokes the holiday period and concludes his missive with a question mocking the postcard's subtitle "Seminary of Elder Vocations east facade": "this card is also a riddle: what is a seminary of Elder vocations?"


    €500
  17. Lettre autographe signée de Julien Gracq adressée au journaliste Jean-Claude Lamy à propos d'un article accompagné de photographies : "Rappelez vous notre conversation : une seule photo pour illustrer votre texte (j'aurais préféré" aucune ! malgré le talent très grand de Robert Doisneau)"
    Julien GRACQ
    Lettre autographe signée de Julien Gracq adressée au journaliste Jean-Claude Lamy à propos d'un article accompagné de photographies : "Rappelez vous notre conversation : une seule photo pour illustrer votre texte (j'aurais préféré" aucune ! malgré le talent très grand de Robert Doisneau)"
    Paris 24 octobre 1985|14.50 x 10.50 cm|quatre feuilles + une enveloppe
    Autograph letter signed, on a Bristol card, by Julien Gracq, 15 lines in black ink, addressed to journalist Jean-Claude Lamy, regarding the text of an article for which he gives his approval and an album of photographs concerning another writer.
    Apart from a few modifications he intends to make, notably on the fact of not being photographed, even by Robert Doisneau, he authorizes the publication of this interview.
    We include the envelope addressed by Julien Gracq from his Parisian home.
    We also include the text of three pages of the article with corrections and crossings-out by Jean-Claude Lamy and four modifications and corrections in Julien Gracq's hand.
    A few letters have smudged without consequence, a handsome copy.
    "Paris 24 octobre
    Cher monsieur.
    Merci de m'avoir soumis le texte que je vous retourne : il correspond en gros aux propos tenus et je ne vois à vous soumettre que deux ou trois formulations un peu différentes. Je regarde avec plaisir les photos de l'album que vous l'aimable pensée de m'adresser : il s'agit là d'un écrivain qui ne m'a jamais laissé indifférent. Rappelez vous notre conversation : une seule photo pour illustrer votre texte (j'aurais préféré" aucune ! malgré le talent très grand de Robert Doisneau) Avec mon bon souvenir. J. Gracq."     ["Paris 24 October
    Dear sir.
    Thank you for submitting the text which I return to you: it corresponds roughly to the remarks made and I see only two or three slightly different formulations to submit to you. I look with pleasure at the photos in the album which you had the kind thought to send me: this concerns a writer who has never left me indifferent. Remember our conversation: only one photo to illustrate your text (I would have preferred none! despite Robert Doisneau's very great talent) With my kind regards. J. Gracq."]
    €580
  18. Un beau ténébreux
    Julien GRACQ
    Un beau ténébreux
    Librairie José Corti|Paris 1945|12 x 19 cm|relié
    Second edition published four months after the very rare first edition, one of 50 numbered copies on pur fil, the only deluxe copies.
    Half blue box binding, smooth spine, date, title and author's name in palladium, boards with abstract patterned paper, orange paper endpapers and pastedowns, front cover preserved, top edge gilt on deckled edges, binding signed by Boichot workshops.
    Very handsome copy elegantly bound.
    €1,500
  20. "Je suis à Sion, que vous connaissez déjà sans doute un peu par Lettrines 2 ; il y fait beau et un peu frais, et hélas !, il y a beaucoup de monde"
    Julien GRACQ
    "Je suis à Sion, que vous connaissez déjà sans doute un peu par Lettrines 2 ; il y fait beau et un peu frais, et hélas !, il y a beaucoup de monde"
    Autograph postcard signed by Julien Gracq addressed to his close friend and monographer Ariel Denis
    Sion-sur-l'Océan [Sion-sur-l'Océan] s. d. [circa 1995]|15 x 10.50 cm|une carte postale
    Autograph signed postcard from Julien Gracq with 16 lines addressed to his friend and monographer Ariel Denis, written in black felt-tip pen, on the reverse of a photograph showing the beach of Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez in Vendée, not far from his apartment in Sion-sur-l'Océan.
    Julien Gracq thanks Ariel Denis for the news he sent him from Constantinople : "... je suis heureux que votre voyage se soit terminé sans hostilités..." ["... I am happy that your journey ended without hostilities..."] while lamenting the August crowds disturbing his peaceful retreat in Vendée: "... Je suis à Sion...et hélas !, il y a beaucoup de monde" ["... I am in Sion... and alas! there are many people"].
    Then the author of "Le Rivage des Syrtes" celebrates the critics' benevolence toward him with his characteristic modesty : "... j'ai lu en effet l'article de France soir que vous me signalez : je n'ai pas eu à me plaindre de la critique , surtout à propos d'un ouvrage qui n'était pas très important et qui ne prétendait pas l'être." ["... I did indeed read the France Soir article you pointed out to me: I have not had cause to complain about the critics, especially regarding a work that was not very important and did not claim to be."]


    €450
  31. Le roi pêcheur
    Julien GRACQ
    Le roi pêcheur
    José Corti|Paris 1948 & 1990-1991|12.50 x 19 cm|broché & trois feuillets
    First edition, one of 60 numbered copies on pure thread paper, the only deluxe copies along with 45 Marais.
    We include with our copy three autograph letters signed by the author regarding the theatrical performances of "Le Roi Pêcheur," one page each and dated respectively July 26, 1990, December 28, 1990, and August 2, 1991 (Saint Florent le Vieil).
    The letters, addressed to the administration of the Théâtre des Célestins, concern the theatrical performance of Le Roi Pêcheur, Julien Gracq's sole and only play, written in 1942-1943. In the first letter, the author gives his agreement regarding the conditions set by the Theatre concerning his rights on the performances, but declares himself "hostile to the exclusive authorization for all of France requested by the Théâtre des Célestins until December 31, 1993."
    In the second letter, he requests a copy of the contract he signed with M. Lucet, then director of the Théâtre des Célestins.
    In the third, Julien Gracq requests a modification of this contract on the clause concerning the duration of exclusive authorization, and provides practical indications regarding the payment of his rights. Date stamps from the administration. Manuscript notes in another hand in the margins of the last two letters (secretary).
    Important manuscript correspondence concerning the first theatrical performances of this play since the failure of its creation in 1949.
    Exceptional ensemble.
    €3,000
  87. Le Rivage des Syrtes
    Julien GRACQ
    Le Rivage des Syrtes
    José Corti|Paris 1951|13 x 19 cm|relié sous étui
    First edition, one of 40 numbered copies on vergé de Rives paper, tirage de tête.
    Midnight-blue morocco by P. L. Martin (dated 1958), pastedowns and endpapers of yellow-ochre calf, gilt fillet to edges of covers, gilt roulettes at head and foot, all edges gilt, covers and spine preserved, slipcase edged in midnight-blue morocco.
    The novel was awarded the Goncourt prize, turned down by the author. The previous year, in a pamphlet called “La Littérature à l'estomac [Literature in the Gut]”, Gracq had denounced the commercial system surrounding literature, notably criticizing literary prizes.
    Provenance : library of R. & B. L. with ex libris.
    A handsome copy of Gracq's most famous novel in a splendid triple Jansenist binding by Pierre-Lucien Martin.
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