Two letters addressed to Paul ÉLUARD relating to "Poetry and Truth". 1942.
"It is a joy for me to have been able to travel, lovingly, with so much poetry and so much truth."
600€
"It is a joy for me to have been able to travel, lovingly, with so much poetry and so much truth."
600€
[Paul ÉLUARD ] – Armand ROBIN & Gabriel AUDISIO
Two autograph letters signed and addressed to Paul Éluard.
One page in-12° and two pages in-8°. Envelopes preserved.
Paris. September 29, 1942 and January 17, 1943.
"It is a joy for me to have been able to travel, lovingly, with so much poetry and so much truth."
Two beautiful letters addressed to Paul Éluard during the war period. One, full of admiration, from Gabriel Audisio who has just read Poésie et Vérité , and the other, noble and despairing, from Armand Robin announcing his break with the poet.
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Audisio to P. Éluard – Dear Éluard, I have returned home, relieved of your papers which have been delivered to their recipients. It is a joy for me to have been able to travel, lovingly, with so much poetry and so much truth , and with this freedom of today. In a few days, freed from some pressing worries, I will send you my regards. I hope we can see each other at our leisure. Yours, Gabriel Audisio.
Robin to P. Éluard – My dearest Paul, I have been thinking for a long time about your letter of December. You know that I have the greatest admiration for you and (what is truly better) the greatest affection. That is why I am so sorry to think that I will no longer be able to see you, or even greet you : you understand, Paul, I lived for almost two years in a wretched, truly appalling environment; I made the mistake of being far too kind.
That you might have sided with these people a - century Chinese poems; I have never encountered anything so beautiful. I truly regret that you could have sided, even for a single day, with these charlatans against poetry and simply against humanity . Affectionately and faithfully, A. Robin. PS – I am working on your book (the manuscript with the blank pages); I am transcribing the original poems with the French text opposite. I will drop it off at your concierge's one day.
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Armand Robin (1912-1961) was considered by Éluard to be the greatest poet he had ever met.
Gabriel Audisio (1900-1978) gave public readings in Marseille of Éluard's poem, Liberté.