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MALLARMÉ, Stéphane (1842-1898)

Lot 73
29.10.2024 14:00UTC +00:00
Classic
Starting price
€ 5 500
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 1317669
Lot 73 | MALLARMÉ, Stéphane (1842-1898)
Estimate value
€ 6 000 – 8 000
MALLARMÉ, Stéphane (1842-1898)
Lettre autographe signée à J.-H. Rosny, datée "Paris, 19 juillet 1888"

4 pp. in-12 (175 x 223 mm) sur un bifeuillet remplié. Encre sur papier.

Sublime lettre de Mallarmé expliquant sa propre conception de la poésie et du roman à l'écrivain J.-H. Rosny : "Ici commence le Poëme, que notre gloire serait de dégager peu à peu de tous les genres littéraires qui l'obscurcissent encore et, comme vous le faites, de laver à grandes eaux supérieures."

Mallarmé écrit à l'auteur franco-belge J.-H. Rosny (1856-1940) et le félicite pour son dernier roman, Les Corneilles. Louant l'inventivité de ses livres, Mallarmé expose au passage ses ambitions littéraires : "J'avais songé, devant Les Corneilles, en fermant la Revue Indépendante ; et le même flux d'impressions, net et fort, me revient à la lecture du volume, que vous avez la bonté de m'envoyer. Cette oeuvre ne tient plus au roman que par le récit : je crois que ce mode primitif de lier la série de nos pensées, nous le secouerons même !"

Il fustige les écrivains contemporains, aspirant à révolutionner la poésie : "Mais ce que vous reniez déjà magnifiquement, c'est le déplorable effort moderne à tout ramener à un moyen terme de vision, peu miraculeux pour les gens, [...] lequel fait de nos maîtres romanciers des reporters de génie simplement. Vous êtes bien impersonnel, mais au nom de la lueur fondante ou aiguë de la vie, à quelle hauteur sitée !, au point que tout ensemble de faits baignés par elle s'y épanouit délicieusement, comme les lacs de brise et de ciel d'une fin de jour, et les réservoirs de toute rêverie."

Exceptional letter in which Mallarmé explains his own conception of novel and poetry to fellow writer J.-H. Rosny.
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