Collage original consistant en deux cartes postales réunies à l'aide d'un post-it jaune et d'un morceau de ruban adhésif bleu

Original collage made by Michel Butor using two postcards with a post-it and a blue adhesive tape.
On the back of the first, larger and representing his property Lucinges in Haute-Savoie and acting as an invitation to a party that the couple Butor gave, Michel Butor complains of the rare presence of Georges Raillard at his side that he explains: "I was very happy to see you again, but it was too little, and then I have a vague impression that you grudge me for not having always served you in the last few years. books that I have published here and there so well that you could not read them. " while apologizing, "Do not accuse my negligence, I have never been a good promoter of my books."
In order to remedy his delay and his forgetfulness, Michel Butor begs his correspondent to draw up a list of the forgotten works that he will send him before giving him his desire to see him during his next visit to Paris with his wife Marie-Jo .
In the second card, Michel Butor evokes the weather and regrets that the couple Raillard was unable to participate in the party organized in Lucinges: "Here is the invitation for the evening of Saturday.You will not have the party, but you will remember it. "