Alfred Jarry - Autograph letter signed to his friend Félix Fénéon. 1902.

Alfred JARRY (1873.1907)

Autograph letter signed to Félix Fénéon.

An in-12 ° page. Tab trace on the back.

[July 21, 1902]

Alfred Jarry sends his gestures to his friend Félix Fénéon, to the White Review.

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“My dear friend, I missed the morning mail for my gestures , but they will be finished in time for the mail of 3 hours this afternoon. They must arrive at your home tonight at 8 a.m. If you have the leisure to go to the journal before your departure, I would like to receive a copy of the last issue here, the one where there is the article by Thadée Natanson on the coronation. Well cordially A. Jarry »

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Jarry published his first text in the Revue Blanche in 1896. From July 1900 his collaboration became regular, with in particular his "speculations", a series of highly pataphysical chronicles inspired by news. In January 1902, the series took the title of "gestures". Jarry explains so: "Under the title" Gestures ", we will now find in this review, by us, comments on all kinds of plastic shows. […] All these gestures and even all the gestures are at an equal aesthetic degree, and we will attach the same importance to it. »»

The "gestures" of which Jarry announces here the sending are the text "the appendix of the king", published on July 15, 1902 and devoted to the disease of the King of England, Edouard VII, who had just climbed the throne. This is why he why he claims the article that Natanson had devoted, in the previous issue, to his coronation.

Jarry and Fénéon had mutual admiration. It was Fénéon who brought him to the Revue Blanche, where he was his main support and his privileged interlocutor. For his part, Jarry had the deepest esteem for the one he called "the one who silence".