ARTAUD antonin. - Lot 44

ARTAUD antonin. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED to Maurice SAILLET. Paris, January 23, 1947. 7 pages in-12 in ink, envelope retained. Letter to Maurice Saillet, writer, critic and partner of Adrienne Monnier in her bookshop Les amis des Livres. Artaud's letter of explanation concerning his poems before Saillet's criticism. ... I haven't yet read your assessment of the session of the 13th. But there's one thing I want to tell you right away: I've got three poems in here, and then one last one. They said everything I had to say, but on the mythical level of poetry. Yet they are true, entirely true. It was reality that dictated the improvised words. What I had to say was in my silences, not in my words. Because if I didn't say what I came to say, it's because I'd given up by the time I got to work...