MARTIN DU GARD (Roger). Set of 6 letters and a card. - Lot 136

MARTIN DU GARD (Roger). Set of 6 letters and a card. 2 autograph letters signed to the writer and archaeologist Félix Sartiaux. Long, well-argued criticisms of his correspondent's texts: Either: about his lecture Qu'est-ce que la civilisation, delivered for the Union rationaliste on March 15, 1932 (his interlocutor forces "us to think anew, about things that were nevertheless within the scope of our everyday thinking..."), and about his volume La Civilisation published in 1938 ("I had begun your book in Paris... I've started again here... You seem to me like a magician. It's a magnificent flight over the centuries. You unfold before the reader a prestigious panorama, in which the life of mankind unfolds at great speed... I took many notes along the way, and copied several luminous sentences, - on modern messianism, despotism and the balance of power, the anathema cast on the power of numbers, etc... " - 2 letters. - 2 letters. One autograph signed to arrange a meeting with Gaston Gallimard (1940), and the other autograph asking "Alors, aucun, aucun moyen d'avoir une éd[ition] originale d'"ALBERTINE DISPARUE"???? [by Marcel Proust]" (n.d.). - Autograph card signed to Louis Morazzani, general agent of the Société des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques. 1941. On his wish to ban his play Le Testament du père Leleu, except at the Comédie-Française. - 2 autograph letters signed to a "dear friend". 1947-1948. Concerning Sweden and its mores, in particular the year (1947) when André Gide received the Nobel Prize for Literature. He also writes about his play Un Taciturne.