MAURIAC (François). Set including 2 corrected typescripts an - Lot 138

MAURIAC (François). Set including 2 corrected typescripts and 16 letters or cards. Typescript signed with autograph corrections, entitled "La mort par l'image". [1951]. Severe criticism of Alf Sjöberg's film Mademoiselle Julie, based on the work by August Strindberg. "Decay has become the most widely shared thing in the world... Pure evil does not exist..." (4 pp. folio). - Corrected typescript with long autograph addition. Fragment of a study on the sculptor Ossip Zadkine and the sculptures at Moissac Abbey (one p. in-folio). - 7 autograph letters and cards to writer Louis Artus. 1921-1939 and n.d. On his book Préséances, Philippe Berthelot, Charles Maurras, his correspondent's candidacy against Georges Lenotre, etc. - 2 autograph letters signed to Marcel Thiébaut, director of the Revue de Paris. 1929. Long letters on faith and religious questions. - 4 letters and an autograph card signed to the writer Michel de Saint-Pierre. 1949-1961. On his reading (Renan, Péguy, and Bakounine), literary prizes ("... You must have some "chances" for one of those prizes that destroy works long worn and pondered. Yes, you are a writer. But today's methods are formidable for boys your age..."), Michel de Saint-Pierre's books Ce Monde ancien and La Mer à boire. - 3 autograph letters signed and an autograph visiting card. - Enclosed, a typed letter to the writer Robert Mallet, to whom François Mauriac refused to publish his correspondence with Francis Jammes (1951), and a postcard from the series "Nos résistants", reproducing François Mauriac's autograph dedication of his novel La Pharisienne to Lieutenant Heller, in charge of German censorship during the Occupation.