Raymond RADIGUET – A beautiful combination of two signed autograph poems.

Raymond RADIGUET (1903.1923)

Signed autograph poems

Two pages in-12°. No place or name

Superb combination of two signed autograph poems written on both sides of the page.

On the front:

Postscript

Reader, adorable executioner,

Don't be afraid to be strict

For us who write these verses

Barely worthy of a ZERO.

RR.

This quatrain appeared in his collection " Holiday Homework " published by Éditions de la Sirène in 1921, under the title Zero and bearing slight modifications: " Dear readers, adorable executioner / More than ever be severe / When you discover these verses / Hardly worthy of a zero ."

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On the back of this quatrain, Radiguet wrote this seventeen-line poem, which remained unpublished during his lifetime. Written in a disproportionate, erratic hand, it was probably composed under the influence of alcohol (as indicated by the final note: "I am alone , drunk") and reveals all the early disenchantment of the young poet:

Because the Earth is round

I won't go to the ends of the earth

Because she doesn't want me

I will not fulfill my dream

It is 5 o'clock

I watch the trams go by

There are no more trams in Paris

Oh well, I like trams

It is 5 o'clock

The working class goes to work

I am by the water's edge

I make paper fortune tellers

And I'm leaving... with

Perhaps today the Earth will no longer be round

And I could go to the ends of the earth

Maybe today she'll want me

And I could fulfill my dream.

Radiguet. To Machin. I am alone and drunk.