Poème autographe de Jean Cocteau intitulé "Discordances" contenu dans son recueil de poèmes Le Prince Frivole
s. n.|s. l. s.d. (ca 1909)|24.50 x 25 cm|une page
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Autograph quatrain of youth of eight stanzas by Jean Cocteau, 9 lines written in black ink on a flexible cardboard sheet. This manuscript poem was printed in the collection "Le prince frivole" published by Mercure de France in 1910, the second work published by the poet. Handsome copy. This manuscript of Le Prince frivole was reputed lost: "The original manuscript in Cocteau's hand is missing" (Oeuvres poétiques complètes, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, page 1842). The work, praised by Marcel Proust who thus hailed Jean Cocteau as a: "Twenty-year-old Banville awaiting higher destinies", would be disowned by the author who would go so far as to forbid its republication. "Un lys muet au col du vase de cristal Où la fenêtre, en tout petit, brille et se bombe Contre un mur où leur grâce en stuc s'émonde et tombe Des roses... je craignais ! un noeud, c'était fatal" (A mute lily at the neck of the crystal vase Where the window, very small, shines and bulges Against a wall where their grace in stucco prunes and falls Roses... I feared! a knot, it was fatal)