MONTHERLANT

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MONTHERLANT
MONTHERLANT (Henry de). Autograph manuscript, [1950?]. 3 pages and a half in-4, on the back of letters addressed to him or typed fragments. Curious article written by the novelist, about his work; with autograph corrections and repentance. It illustrates the exercise of self-criticism familiar to Montherlant, to which he often indulged, and which he considered an integral part of his work. "From the very beginning of Montherlant's work, there is a contradiction in him": The Dream "is based on this refusal of love: it is the novel of the unnatural"[] However, this aberration of Alban seems "without scope in Montherlant's work", "an isolated case", because for thirty years "the Montherlantian banners" have carried the senses high, and this up to "his last work". And to quote a replica of Those Who are Taken in His Arms, then The Master of Santiago, and The Olympics. Now in the most recent reprint of this novel, Montherlant has suppressed La Petite 19, "by his own admission (he told me), because he "did not want voluptuousness to be mixed up with a book on sport", [] it is judged to be of an inferior order" [] In the "mass" of the other books, "the act of flesh is glorified without any restriction" [].
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