André SALMON (1881-1969). Autograph manuscript... Lot 492
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André SALMON (1881-1969). Autograph manuscript signed, Saint André, 1920-1932; [2]-176-[5] leaves small in-4 (22 x 17 cm), in sheets.
Complete manuscript of this poetic collection, published by Gallimard in 1936.
Rather than a collection, this is a long poem, with 53 entries, some of which are titled (Vision, La Foi, L'Espérance, La Charité, Notion, Mémoire, Visions en une, Condition, Question, Conflit, Motif, Passage, Caution, Vidimus, Présence, Séquence...). Salmon has placed himself under the aegis of his patron saint to confront and translate his dismay at the world of his time and the perils and ideologies that threaten it, yet retaining his faith in poetry. And he concludes:
"Saint André, conqueror and legislator
Without sword or code
Who fills his heart with Christ's last breath
And from Orpheus' song drew his method".
The manuscript is neatly written in black or midnight-blue ink, on the fronts of large-ruled bifeuillets paginated from 1 to 176. At the head, Salmon has detailed his three previous collections: Créances (1905-1910), Carreaux (1919-1922) and Charbons (1920-1930). The title page bears an epigraph taken from the Apocalypse: "Write, then, the things you have seen, and the things that are now, and the things that must happen next". At the end, Salmon sets out the table of parts.
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