RIGAUT Jacques. - Lot 279

RIGAUT Jacques. CLIMPÉ SUR MON PIANO. AUTOGRAPHIC MANUSCRIT in ink with erasures and corrections. 3 pages in-4. Climbed on my piano I am the antichrist wearing a gramophone funnel. Triumphant I leap headlong into the lobby of Constantinople's Pera palace and spin a giant rattle with my toes. God bless you moonlit bourriques! Prestige of insanity! To do something that is completely useless. A gesture pure of cause and effect. Up to now - as elsewhere with weightlessness - it's been the reign of utility; from now on, through the absurd, I'm going to escape. Published in Action magazine in 1920 and on page 15 in Ecrits by Gallimard. THERE HAS NEVER BEEN SO MUCH ROOM FOR LOVE. AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT. 2 pages large in-4 in ink, with numerous erasures and corrections. ... Love has been given so much space only because it surpassed the rest of things in usefulness. As money becomes more necessary, more demanding, it becomes more admirable, more lovable like love. The opposite can be argued just as happily... rich people's money helps me to live, but not just in the way we think. Every Rolls Royce I meet extends my life by a quarter of an hour. Instead of waving at hearses, people would do better to wave at Rolls Royces. Published in Littérature 1921 [Roman d'un jeune homme pauvre] and in Agence générale du suicide in 1959. YOU CAN TELL A MAN BY HIS BOREDOM. AUTOGRAPHIC MANUSCRIT in ink with erasures and corrections. 3 pages in-4. ... You can tell a man by his boredom. The only thing that distinguishes men and children is boredom. There are those who are bored and then there are the innocent. If I'm carried away by all those little desires that make a day go by, if I'm sensitive to all those little pleasures, I don't lose sight of what's temporary, what's revisable in their exercise, and I'd be easily changed. It would hardly take more persuasion to make me give up my dislikes and antipathies... Published with variants on page 92 in Ecrits by Gallimard. These 3 manuscripts featured in the Dada exhibition at the Centre Pompidou, October 5 2005 - January 9 2006. Jacques RIGAUT, one of the most active participants in the Paris Dada group, was admired by André Breton and Man Ray for his provocative acts. His Dandy attitude also fascinated Drieu La Rochelle, inspiring him to write the central character of "Le Feu Follet", as well as "La Valise Vide" and "Adieu à Gonzague". His first writings were published in 1920 in the magazines Action and Littérature, then in New York in The Little Review in 1924. In 1929, under the influence of heroin and alcohol, he began a series of detoxification cures. On November 6, 1929, he committed suicide by shooting himself in the heart. He was 31 years old. Most of his work was published posthumously: Lord Patchogue (his double) NRF, 1930, Papiers Posthumes au Sans Pareil, 1934; Agence générale du suicide, Pauvert in 1959, Écrits, Gallimard, 1970.