Lot n° 160
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QUENEAU Raymond (1903-1976).
AUTOGRAPHIC... - Lot 160 - Drouot Estimations
QUENEAU Raymond (1903-1976).
AUTOGRAPHIC MANUSCRIT and corrected TAPS, Saint-Germain-des-Prés (1949).
Complete file of this short film conceived and commented by Queneau on Saint-Germain-des-Prés.
Queneau wrote the script for this documentary on Saint-Germain-des-Prés in 1949, which was directed by Marcello PAGLIERO (1907-1980), and was released in 1951. In the cafés, bars, cabarets, cellars, bookstores, or streets of this village, Juliette Gréco, André Breton, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Paulhan, Boris Vian, etc. appeared. It was Queneau himself who said his own comment.
* Autograph manuscript of first draft (20 p. in black ink detached from a school notebook, including 2 representing the plan of the neighborhood), plus 2 ff. of notes.
* 1st typescript corrected (8 p. in-4); 2nd typescript corrected (9 p. in-4 with cutting and plans); 3rd typescript corrected (9 p. in-4); 4th typescript corrected (6 p. in-4); 5th typescript, very little corrected (8 p. in-4).
* Final typescript (8 p. in-4). Plus corrected fragments (5 p. in-4).
* Preparatory notes (5 p. in-4 typed, plus copy of the first 3 pages).
* Shots (19 p. in-4 typed).
* Cutting (6 p. in-4 typed, the last one with autograph notes).
* Production file, contract (3 l.s. of ITS productions to R. Queneau).
In a handwritten passage not retained in the final commentary, Queneau delivers this brilliant "psychogeographical" analysis: "Saint-Germain des Prés is bounded by four hostile neighborhoods, four foreign powers: to the East, the Latin Quarter; to the North, Saint-Sulpice; to the West, the Faubourg Saint-Germain; to the South, the Quat'Zarts. The students, the priests, the snobs, the artists. The faluche, the goupillon, the monocle and the brush ".
The comparison of the manuscript and the final typescript reveals interesting variants. Thus, about André Breton, we read in the manuscript: "It is André Breton - the first and greatest of the surrealists - who takes his coffee"; in the final version, it becomes: "The poor rombières will sit down candidly under the severe eye of André Breton".
In the multiple typed versions corrected by Queneau, the writer adds many small details, specifies a trait of a character, removes a length. He notes thus: "The enumeration of characters. It's a bit silly when the name is accompanied by justifications such as 'the American writer', etc. The name alone should be enough, so that the public imagines that the people are known. Otherwise, they think they are ignorant.
Attached is the file of typescripts (one of which is corrected) for the short film Champs-Élysées, directed in 1954 by Roger Thérond and Walter Carone, and commented on by Raymond Queneau: corrected typescript of the commentary (10 p. in-4, pasted opposite the description of the shots on 13 ff); plus a typescript of the shots annotated by a director (14 ff.); and the complete continuous typescript, in 2 copies (7 & 5 pp.)
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