Lettre autographe signée à son ami Georges Raillard à propos d'un article que ce dernier lui commandé pour un numéro de la revue littéraire l'Arc consacré à Raymond Roussel

Autograph letter signed by a page of Alain Robbe-Grillet to his friend the art critic Georges Raillard, friend and specialist of the works of Joan Miro and Antoni Tapies, dated 29 Jullet (1977).
Alain Robbe-Grillet is worried about having lost in his library the volume of Raymond Roussel's "Nouvelles impressions d'Afrique" on which he was working ( "Now, this volume has disappeared from my library" , "I vaguely remember the 'put aside to pick up the back that was dismantled') inspired by the illustrations of this text to use as "generators-images for the next chapter of my current novel" but also to provide Georges Raillard and Gilbert Lascault an article for the number 68 of the magazine L'Arc of 1977 devoted to Raymond Roussel. The loss of this volume compromising and temporarily delaying this project "But, in the meantime, my work for you is blocked", Alain Robbe-Grillet is requesting the loan of the copy of "New impressions of Africa" that would eventually have Georges Raillard : "Do you see the way to lend me a copy for two months, or what to do?"