BIB_ID
451028
Accession number
MA 23871
Creator
Jarry, Alfred, 1873-1907.
Credit line
Purchased for the Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman Pataphysics Collection on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2024.
Description
approximately 1016 pages ; size varies
Notes
Collection of unpublished autograph manuscripts of Pantagruel, one of Alfred Jarry's major projects.
"Originally conceived as a mirlitonesque fairy tale intended for the Théâtre des Pantins, Pantagruel was to be progressively transformed into a lyrical play. An enormous mass of manuscripts "of a hopeless complexity" (Patrick Besnier) was reduced, in 1911, through the intervention of Claude Terrasse and other collaborators, to a thin libretto for an opera buffa."--Auction notes.
The collection is sorted, classified and commented on possibly by an intimate connoisseur of Jarry's work. The groupings retrace the different stages of writing, from the first attempts at adaptation in 1897 to the final stage, the playable version developed by Eugène Demolder and Claude Terrasse.
"Originally conceived as a mirlitonesque fairy tale intended for the Théâtre des Pantins, Pantagruel was to be progressively transformed into a lyrical play. An enormous mass of manuscripts "of a hopeless complexity" (Patrick Besnier) was reduced, in 1911, through the intervention of Claude Terrasse and other collaborators, to a thin libretto for an opera buffa."--Auction notes.
The collection is sorted, classified and commented on possibly by an intimate connoisseur of Jarry's work. The groupings retrace the different stages of writing, from the first attempts at adaptation in 1897 to the final stage, the playable version developed by Eugène Demolder and Claude Terrasse.
Provenance
Sainmont (pseudonym of Emmanuel Peillet) at the beginning of the 1950s, from the Matarasso bookstore; Sainmont put on sale a manuscript of 96 leaves in the catalog of the Matarasso bookshop in 1952, which is most likely the almost complete version of the second version (105 pages); three manuscripts and three synopses of the last version came from the Noël Arnaud collection (acquired at public sale on 20 June 2005, lot 232.); Geneviève and Jean-Paul Kahn; their sale, Paris, Pierre Bergé, June 18, 2021, lot 13; Leducq, October 27, 2023, lot 21; acquired by the Morgan Library & Museum in March 2024.
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