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 a lot of work going on: two novels from Fasquelle and the translation of a modern Greek novel. »

Jarry, passing through Paris, wishes to see Natanson for advice on his current literary work.

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“My dear friend, I learned incidentally from Vallette that you were in Paris. Me too. I returned there recently. It would be a great pleasure to see you again. A word please if you are free – I am confused that you subscribed to “Moutardier du Pape”, but we had to put an end to a perilous situation. I have a lot of work going on: two novels from Fasquelle and the translation of a modern Greek novel , all finished, but I would like to ask your advice for a business operation concerning Pantagruel, now received at the Théâtre de la Cash. Best regards, 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 which occupied him the longest, from 1897 to 1905. This considerable work, with which several collaborators were associated, including, mainly, Willy and Eugène Demolder, only resulted in 'to a thin posthumous brochure, in 1910, jointly signed by Eugène Demolder.

The two novels planned by the publisher Eugène Fasquelle are none other than La Dragonne , which will only be published fragmentarily 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.