BÉGUIN Albert

2 AUTOGRAPHIC LETTERS SIGNED to Gaston FERDIÈRE. Paris, January 17, 1946 and July 28, 1946. 4 pages in-8 in ink. Letters related in part to Antonin Artaud from Albert Béguin, Swiss writer and editor, director of the journal Esprit in 1950. ... "By chance today I was told that Antonin Artaud was in Rodez at the home of a doctor whose name, forgive me, did not evoke the memory of our meeting" ... "You will like what I said about Hölderlin, about Nerval, I thank you. The history of Antonin Artaud concerns me and if I could follow this history more closely, I would do so, not to write about it now, but to try to understand it" ... ... "As for my article on the pitiful Vigny de Lauvriere, you have misinterpreted it. One could not imagine a more archaic conception of literature and morbid states: it is to this notion of the 19th century re-edited by an imbecile that I had some" ... ... "That Artaud is a genius I have never doubted and you could tell me some very interesting things about him" ...