Alfred JARRY continues his literary work. 1907.

Alfred JARRY (1873.1907)

Autograph letter signed to Thadée Natanson.

A ½ in-8° page. Autograph envelope.

 Paris. January 18, 1907.

« I have quite a few projects underway: two novels at Fasquelle and the translation of a modern Greek novel. »

Jarry, passing through Paris, wishes to see Natanson to obtain advice on his current literary works.

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“My dear friend, I learned incidentally from Vallette that you were in Paris. Me too. I recently returned. It would give me great pleasure to see you again. A word please if you are free – I am sorry that you subscribed to the “Pope’s Mustard Maker,” but a perilous situation had to be resolved. I have quite a few projects underway: two novels with Fasquelle and the translation of a modern Greek novel , all finished, but I would like to ask your advice on a business matter concerning Pantagruel, now playing at the Théâtre de la Monnaie. Yours sincerely, and see you soon I hope. Alfred Jarry.”

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The comic operetta Le Moutardier du pape , was published in 1907, by Paul Ranson.

Pantagruel , another comic operetta, is of all Jarry's works, the one that occupied him the longest, from 1897 to 1905. This considerable work, to which several collaborators were associated, including mainly Willy and Eugène Demolder, resulted only in a slim posthumous booklet, in 1910, jointly signed by Eugène Demolder.

The two novels planned with the publisher Eugène Fasquelle are none other than La Dragonne , which will only be published in a fragmentary way in 1943, and, above all, Gestes et opinions du docteur Faustroll, Pataphysicien .

As for the "translation of a modern Greek novel", it is La Papesse Jeanne , a novel by the Greek writer Emmanuel Rhodes published in 1866, on which Jarry worked in collaboration with Doctor Jean Saltas.