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Max JACOB.
Illustrated autograph notebook. No place or date [ca. 1930]. School notebook in-4 with 56 autograph pages. Superb autograph notebook, illustrated with original drawings, by Max Jacob. This is one of the famous school notebooks used by the poet to record his discoveries. It contains about 85 aphorisms, prose poems and short texts, thrown in at random with a pen or pencil, sometimes accompanied by a clean-up. A selection was published in December 1931 in the Nouvelle Revue française under the title Le Cornet à dés : Adde, with a few variants and corrections. Under the title "Notes pour la chronique mensuelle" at the head of the notebook fi gures several stories and prose poems, including two dated 22 March and 7 April. The latter evidently refer to a column in the NRF published under the pseudonym Morven le Gaëlique entitled "J'en passe les meilleurs". It was never published. Among the prose texts, we also find "Le Filleul", "La Dame de 1900" and "L'Enfant de la balle". The notebook also contains numerous sketches in the text and two full-page drawings: - a composition representing Orpheus, imitating Jean Cocteau's drawings; - a page covered with sketches of human and animal figures; - 17 sketches in the text, mainly studies of human figures. The manuscript comes from the collection of Louis Broder, who had a bookplate made with the title: "Max Jacob. A poèmes rompus." The publisher had published two texts by Max Jacob - his seminal account of Cubism, Chroniques des temps héroïques, in 1956, of which he had the complete manuscript, and then, four years later, A poèmes rompus. This selection of poetic texts illustrated by Jacques Villon includes some of the prose poems in the notebook.
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