Lot n° 52
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2000 - 3000
EUR
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Louis ARAGON.
Persecuted Persecutor. Paris, Éditions surréalistes, 1931.
In-4, green cloth Bradel style, red calf title page throughout, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved (modern binding).
First edition.
One of the 100 copies out of trade on green paper.
Long autograph letter signed:
To Man Ray, in the darkroom there were several little children: 1921, 22, 23, 24... 31, the latter was slowly dying, and it is a pleasure as we grow old side by side in the street
Last, my dear friend, we both have a taste for the countryside, I'll meet you a little further along the edge of the cemetery, not in it.
Aragon
Melancholy dispatch, echoing the tone of the collection marking the poet's break with the surrealist movement - a break that is all the more cruel in the case of Man
Ray, to whom Aragon was linked. The poet had written the preface to his first exhibition in December 1921 and, in 1929, he had asked Man Ray to illustrate the scandalous 1929, a collection of erotic poems written with Benjamin Péret.
In 1936, Aragon praised the photographer who "manages to reproduce the very manner of modern painters, what seemed in them to be more than anything else a challenge to the lens, to the mechanics" - even though he judged this photography "detached from life", "a studio art", opposing it to the art of the reporters-photographers.
"The relationship between the two men did not break down, however, since on the occasion of the reissue of Aurélien in 1966, Aragon asked Man Ray for a series of photographs. The writer then gave these images a real role in the conception of the novel, since we find in the note on the illustration that "the novel itself, it was Man Ray who wrote it, playing in black and white with the mask of l'Inconnue de la Seine". (F. Salzmann in Dictionnaire Aragon, p. 570).
The copy is complete with the erratum.
The sheet on which the mailing is written is browned as are the margins throughout the copy.
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