Feb 20, 2020 - Sale 2530

Sale 2530 - Lot 130

Price Realized: $ 938
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
BELLOW, SAUL. Two items sent to translator Shozo Tokunaga: Autograph Letter Signed * Typescript, unsigned, with over 200 lines of holograph notes. The letter, hoping his notes have not arrived too late, and anticipating a trip to Japan in June to accept an invitation to [the 37th Annual Congress of] PEN [International, held in Seoul on the 29th] in June, 1970. 1 page, 8vo, "University of Chicago" stationery; faint scattered foxing, horizontal fold. The typescript, clarifying the meaning of various words and phrases from the text of Bellow's "Leaving the Yellow House" and "The Old System" [probably for a Japanese translation of his anthology, Mosby's Memoirs and Other Stories, 1968]. 18 pages, tall 4to, onionskin paper, written on rectos only; horizontal fold. With the original envelope. Chicago, 3 December 1969
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". . . I finished my notes. I hope they do not come too late.
"I may find myself in Japan late in June 1970. I've been invited to attend the PEN meeting in Korea and I'm thinking of accepting the invitation."
A holograph passage from the notes on "The Old System": "In many myths (see C.G. Jung) Death is represented as a lover or bride groom. In opera, especially of the 19th century, human emotions are grandiloquently expressed. Grandiloquence can sound like parody. . . ."