PEYREFITTE, Roger (1907-2000), romancier, prix Renaudot pour Les Amitiés particulières.

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PEYREFITTE, Roger (1907-2000), romancier, prix Renaudot pour Les Amitiés particulières.
163 L.A.S. to Henry de Montherlant. 1938-1967 (overwhelmingly 1939-1944) + 2 drafts of Montherlant's reply. Listed in chronological order with dates restored (some remain undated). 366 pp. in-4 and in-8. Exceptional correspondence, largely unpublished. In 1938, when the correspondence between Henry de Montherlant and Roger Peyrefitte began, Montherlant was forty-three years old. Les Bestiaires (1926), Les Célibataires and the first three volumes of Les Jeunes Filles (1936-1937) had already established his notoriety. Peyrefitte, ten years his junior, had to resign from his post as secretary of the embassy in Athens after a scandal that brought him into conflict with the protégé of a Greek admiral. Peyrefitte and Montherlant had met a year earlier. Having learned from a mutual friend that Montherlant shared his taste for teenagers, Peyrefitte, emboldened, approached the writer in one of those Parisian fairs where gentlemen, lovers of young people, stalk their prey. A friendship was born. For several years, the two companions exchanged a cryptic and flowery correspondence, sharing their good fortunes and their misadventures, exchanging good addresses and sometimes their young lovers. These are the letters of two very lively satyrs, the first one starts on December 24, 1938. "On the eve of the charming and mystical night, Santa Claus did not think he should appear other than as Herakles [it is written on the back of a postcard reproducing a sculpture by V. de Rossi, kept in Palazzo Vecchio, Ercole che punisce Diomede [Hercules punishing Diomede, virulently grabbing his sex]. And it is to wish you, as he preaches, that your works will not go without some sweetness. A thousand thanks for the kind sending of "Equinoxe" [The September Equinox] [...]". There follows a long correspondence, particularly dense for the years 41 and 42, of which it is easy to imagine the t
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