KLOSSOWSKI (Pierre).

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KLOSSOWSKI (Pierre).
2 L.A.S., one partly typed, to Raymond QUENEAU. Traize-sur-Yenne (Savoie), July 10 and August 7, 1952, 2 pp. in-4 and in-8. Beautiful and important correspondence about "The Impossible Roberte" full of the author's own detachment and humor: ...let me thank you for having been willing to inflict on you the burden of this reading. Regardless of a possible publication, which he had not even thought of (but Brice Parain suggested that he try his luck), he wanted to send a typed copy to her and to a few friends who might appreciate this mockery. Although surprised by the support he received from the N.R.F. reading committee for such a text, he was not at all surprised to learn from Gallimard itself that it considered it unpublishable in its editions. I don't know at the moment what Camus' reaction was. On the other hand, he was considering a limited edition, so to speak, out of commerce and asked Queneau for advice on this subject. His brother, the painter BALTHUS, reading the text would perhaps decide to illustrate it. He has received through Pierre Leyris the German edition of Hermann BROCH's book La Mort de Virgile and the letter announcing the sending of the manuscript to be revised and thanks him warmly for having interested your friend Michel Roethel [editor of the review IIIème convoi] in the fate of my Roberte. I am asking him now when he expects to be able to examine the quid of this lady...
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