COCTEAU (Jean).
Letter to Jacques Maritain.
[With]: MARITAIN (Jacques). Réponse à Jean Cocteau.
Paris : Librairie Stock, 1926. - 2 works in-18, paperback.
First editions.
The letter from Jean Cocteau to the philosopher Jacques Maritain is dated October 1925. It is a summary of the poet's state of mind after a crisis that began with Radiguet's death in 1923, continued with his conversion to Catholicism and took its most tragic aspect in opium. He also developed the theory of art and poetry of divine origin, "art for God". This theory appealed to Jacques Maritain who wrote a reply to Cocteau's letter, which was published shortly afterwards by the same publisher.
Each volume is one of the first 30 numbered on Japanese imperial paper, both bearing the same number 12.
The first leaf of each work is felted at the top, due to the erasure of notes
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Witnesses slightly soiled.
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