Marcel PROUST (à René PETER)
"je leur souhaite toutes les voluptés depuis les plus hautes jusqu'aux plus grossières"
Signed autograph letter addressed to René Peter
s. l. mardi (25 octobre 1904)|12.60 x 20.40 cm|12 pages sur 3 bifeuillets
Autograph letter signed by Marcel Proust, addressed to René Peter. Twelve pages written in black ink on three bifolia framed in black.
Tears at the ends along the folds of the bifolia, not affecting the text.
Published in Kolb, IV, n°168.
Tears at the ends along the folds of the bifolia, not affecting the text.
Published in Kolb, IV, n°168.
A very long letter from Proust, full of innuendo, to the playwright René Peter. Praising Peter's success, Proust confesses to his own vanity as a writer and his literary ambitions. He subtly lets his jealousy for Peter's mistress shine through and declares his absolute devotion to Reynaldo Hahn. This is one of the first letters he sends to his childhood friend after recently reconnecting with him.
€12,000