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Jean Cocteau

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Jean Cocteau

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Auction Date:2019 Jun 12 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:15th Floor WeWork, Boston, Massachusetts, 02108, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
ALS in French, signed “Jean,” one page, 8.25 x 10.5, 1950. Letter about his 1929 novel Les Enfants Terribles, which was adapted for the screen by director Jean-Pierre Melville in 1950. In part (translated): "You have to understand the wave of my answers. Here are the things. The doctor does not find me in shape. I have exhausted myself from work and when you see Les Enfants Terribles you will see that I slipped there; by force, all my substance. The work of the opera (theater) scares me. Lifar gets confused and wants to take on too much trouble at a time. I must go to hide in the south at the end of August and that I do not leave my retirement under any pretext. How can you not understand, you who know me better than anyone, you who know that I never refuse my help. You who do not want me any harm. I'll see you in Paris. I ask your heart not to try to convince me. A poet is posthumous. His presence is useless. His ghost alone counts. I kiss you all." In fine condition, with light toning along the intersecting folds, and rusty pin holes in the upper left corner.