Jean COCTEAU

"Ensuite, détente et fatigue - car la fatigue ne se manifeste que dans le repos."

Name: Jean COCTEAU • Autograph letter signed to his English translator Marie Hoeck • "Ensuite, détente et fatigue - car la fatigue ne se manifeste que dans le repos." • Autograph • 1950
SKU: 83936
Price: 500 EUR
Availability: InStock

Autograph letter signed to his English translator Marie Hoeck

s. l. 4 février 1950|21 x 27 cm|une page sur un feuillet

€500

Ask a Question

⬨ 83936

Autograph letter signed "Jean" and with a small star addressed to his English translator Marie Hoeck, one page in blue ink on a sheet of fine white paper. Transverse folds inherent to posting. On the verso, notes by the translator in ballpoint pen.
Jean Cocteau is overworked by several projects: "I have finished the mixtures of sounds and music for Orphée. I will probably finish the images for Les Enfants Terribles next week. [...] I do not speak to you of Léone because I look at her, feel her, steep myself in her - but alas, my English allows me nothing more than to breathe in her light ink." He shares with his translator his great fatigue: "Then, relaxation and fatigue - for fatigue only manifests itself in rest. [...] I am quite at ease concerning your springs. They do not creak and their flexibility is perfect. Mine nearly gave way on me the evening in Brussels. It is a lesson. I thought myself capable of the impossible. One must "face the facts", no one can do it."