COCTEAU JEAN Autograph Manuscript unsigned fragment of an un

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MENTIONS ANDRÉ GIDE COCTEAU, JEAN. Autograph Manuscript, unsigned, fragment of an unnamed essay, in French, with a small ink drawing in right margin. The manuscript, nearly half the 22 lines are crossed out, some with insertions, a numeral "7" written in pencil at upper right. The drawing, sketch of a muscular nude man. 1 page, 4to; remnants of hinging at upper corners verso, short closed tear at lower edge. Np, nd

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"I know how much the friendship of André Gide gets angry with my prefaces and my notes. As much . . . as with free balloons turned into captive balloons. But André Gide gives us the journal of the Counterfeiters. And I approve of it. To open the eyes of the living is a duty as painful, as fatal, as closing the eyes of the dead. Here's what made me come out of this limbo. I try not to write. . . ."
Provenance: From the collection of William A. Emboden.