André GIDE – Autograph letter signed to Marcel JOUHANDEAU.
"Why this sadness? Has something hurt you? Or is it just a sadness 'without reason,' like Verlaine's?"
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"Why this sadness? Has something hurt you? Or is it just a sadness 'without reason,' like Verlaine's?"
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Andre Gide (1869.1951).
Autographed letter signed to Marcel Jouhandeau.
One page in-12°. Stamped and canceled autograph envelope.
Paris, Saturday evening (July 17, 1926).
“‘From Guéret, where I will be on Wednesday,’ you tell me. Your letter is undated, and I tore open the envelope. I don’t know if Wednesday has passed… I would like my affection to precede you to Guéret and welcome you . Why this sadness? Has something hurt you? Or is it just a sadness ‘without reason,’ like Verlaine’s? Can my friendship soothe it? You promise me a ‘long, long letter’—you sense, don’t you, that I am waiting for it with all my heart. I am extremely tired and will be leaving Paris in a few days to try to get some sleep in the south. My mail will be forwarded by the NRF. I cannot give you my address, as I don’t yet know exactly where I will be going. Yours, André Gide.”
Marcel Jouhandeau – Correspondence with André Gide , Marcel Sautier Editions, 1958 – Letter 11, page 20.