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COCTEAU, Jean (1889-1963), poète, dramaturge, cinéaste français.
M.A.S., entitled "Twenty Years After...". 1961. 2 pp. in-4, on two sheets. Additions, deletions and corrections. Small mark of trombone.
Very beautiful text by Jean Cocteau evoking his friendship with Georges Simenon but also those with Marcel Pagnol and Pierre Benoit. "We generally look for accomplices or companions to make friends, that is to say, individuals with the same qualities, the same shortcomings as us, with whom this resemblance makes instant and easy contact. Now I can hardly imagine that one could evolve further than Simenon from me, than I from Simenon, unless we were to sit together at the Royal Academy of Belgium, for we work in areas, and even, I would say, in reigns without apparent correspondence (although he claims that Les Enfants terribles is a detective book) [...]. And if you demand a third musketeer, ready to fight by our side, I denounce him: Marcel Pagnol... (Cocteau then wrote in epigraph: "Marcel Pagnol: "What are we complaining about? They say you're a station author. That is true. They sell you in train stations. They say you're an acrobat. It's true. You're an acrobat. They say I'm a ball player. It's true, I am." [...] And d'Artagnan, will you tell me? Pierre Benoit, the nobleman of the nobles, or, of fresh date, Dominique Ponchardier. These friendships, which are based only on friendship without any foreign substance, deserve a study, comparable to the preface of Don Quixote de Unamuno (Miguel de Unamuno), when he exalts the solitary crusade against intellectualism" This text was addressed to Roger Nimier, according to a note from another hand, and was included in the posthumous volume Mes Monstres sacrés (1979).
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