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QUENEAU Raymond (1903-1976). - Lot 162
QUENEAU Raymond (1903-1976).
Autograph MANUSCRITS, TAPS and corrected PROOFS, Bâtons, chiffres et lettres, [1937-1950]; about 300 ff. in-4 of which 80 are autographs, accompanied by 2 sets of corrected proofs of 270 pp. each, by the author.
A collection of texts from Bâtons, chiffres et lettres, where Queneau gathered his studies on language, literature and mathematics.
When it was published in 1950 by Gallimard, the collection Bâtons, chiffres et lettres gave for the first time a panorama of the multiple interests of Raymond Queneau, at the same time writer, linguist, mathematician, translator, critic... In parallel to his work as a novelist and poet, and in interaction with it, Queneau never stopped thinking about language, whether literary, pictorial or mathematical.
All these texts have been closely reviewed by the author to constitute a volume structured to form a true essay expressing the multiple facets of his thought. Queneau will give an increased edition in 1964.
A. Copy prepared for the edition (226 ff. including 10 autographs).
This file, which was used for the printing, gathers original typescripts, abundantly corrected, press clippings, and four autograph manuscripts, the whole classified in 6 parts, with autograph titles. It is paginated 1 and 4-226
Preliminaries. - Written in 1937], autograph manuscript (9 ff. in-4 paginated 4-12, missing the first two pages), with numerous erasures and corrections; the text begins at "Spoken French knows turns that are very close to this one" (p. 11). - Technique of the novel, typescript dated at the end "20 December 1937" (3 ff.; the text had appeared in the n° 1 of Volontés, 20 December 1937). -Conversation with Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, corrected typescript (11 ff. with strikethroughs and passages) of this interview recorded for the R.T.F. in March 1950. - Langage académique, cut from Lettres françaises (April 12, 1946), of which 14 lines have been crossed out. - On cause, cut from Lettres françaises (May 6, 1948). - Connaissez-vous le Chinook," cut from Lettres françaises (May 24, 1946). - Il pourrait sembler qu'en France", corrected typescript (3 ff.).
Prefaces. - Bouvard et Pécuchet by Gustave Flaubert, 25 pp. printed from a copy of Bouvard et Pécuchet prefaced by Queneau (ed. Point du Jour, 1947). - Moustiques by William Faulkner, corrected typescript (7 ff.) [published by Éditions de Minuit, 1948]. -Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo, corrected typescript with autograph additions (7 ff.), unpublished text. -Rendez-vous de Juillet by Jean Quéval, corrected typescript (12 ff.) [publ. Éditions Chavanne, 1949].
Lectures for a front. Abundantly corrected typescript (73 ff.) of these literary chronicles published in the daily newspaper Front national, between September 29 and November 12, 1945. Numerous strikethroughs: almost a quarter of the text is deleted by Queneau for the book. There are reviews of books such as Emmanuel d'Astier's Seven Days, Romain Gary's European Education, Roger Vailland's Drôle de jeu, etc., and remarks on authors as diverse as Paul Valéry and Jean Tardieu, Peter Cheney and J.H. Chase
Tributes. - La Symphonie inachevée (5 pp. impr.), excerpt from the journal Volontés (December 1938) with corrections in pencil at the end of this text on Proust. - Une belle surprise, corrected typescript (8 ff.) [published in Cahiers d'Art, 1944]. - Une traduction en joycien, corrected typescript (2 ff.), unpublished. - Jacques Prévert, clipping from the newspaper La Rue (1946). - Pour recevoir Caldwell à Paris, autograph manuscript (1 p. in-4), unpublished [1949]. - Fantomas, autograph manuscript (1 f. in-4) of this table of the crimes and performances of Fantomas, preceded by a duplicate typed letter to Luc Decaunes (27 November 1947) with corrections and additions. - Defontenay, corrected typescript (10 ff.) [published in Les Cahiers du Sud, 1949].
Graphies. - Délire typographique [published in Arts et métiers graphiques, September 15, 1938]. - What a life [published in Documents, 1930]. - Pictograms (detached printed sheet of the magazine Messages, October 1946). - Miro ou le Poète préhistorique [preface to an album, Skira 1949]. Except Pictograms, corrected typescripts (12 ff.).
Maths. - La Dialectique des mathématiques chez Engels [published in Critique sociale, 1932]. - On the Kinematics of Games [published in Le Sphinx, 1935; title crossed out: La cinématique discontinue; addition of a long autograph paragraph in the margin and of 3 final lines]. - La place des mathématiques dans la classification des sciences [published in Les Cahiers du Sud, 1948]. Corrected typescripts (15 ff.).
Plus autograph "Table of Contents"; and autograph manuscript of Notes (6 ff. paginated A to F) with notes and references to texts, plus two additional notes.
B. Autograph manuscripts of three texts.
The place of mathematics in the classification of sciences
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