Autograph letter signed by Henri de Montherlant, 27 lines written in blue ink, written from Paris in which he expounds and explains the reasons for his love of bullfighting.
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Henri de Montherlant shares, with his correspondent, the emotion provided by a phrase by Julien Green: "... je connaissais par coeur, quasiment, cette phrase de Green, tant j'y avais été sensible... Mais j'avoue n'avoir pas pensé que "R" était vous. Raison de plus pour en être touché." ("... I knew by heart, almost, this phrase by Green, so much had it moved me... But I confess I had not thought that "R" was you. All the more reason to be touched by it.")
He considers having his latest work sent to him: "Je voudrais bien vous envoyer moi-même le volume d'Espana sagrada si votre libraire ne peut l'avoir, j'en demanderai un exemplaire à Wapler." ("I would very much like to send you myself the volume of Espana sagrada if your bookseller cannot get it, I will ask Wapler for a copy.") and seems affected by a false idea that people have about his work "Le chaos et la nuit": "... Je suis un peu agaçé qu'on écrive souvent que dans le "Chaos" je renie la Tauromachie. Je renie comme tous les aficionades, la mauvaise tauromachie. Mais ce qui est le plus important dans la tauromachie, c'est qu'elle est une façon d'être, une façon de se tenir devant la vie, et par là dépasse bien le jeu de l'arène." ("... I am a bit annoyed that people often write that in "Chaos" I renounce bullfighting. I renounce, like all aficionados, bad bullfighting. But what is most important in bullfighting is that it is a way of being, a way of standing before life, and thereby far transcends the game of the arena.")