BARBEY D'AUREVILL Y (Jules). Autograph letter... - Lot 76 - Osenat

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BARBEY D'AUREVILL Y (Jules). Autograph letter... - Lot 76 - Osenat
BARBEY D'AUREVILL Y (Jules). Autograph letter signed to Armand Silvestre. Paris, [September 10, 1887]. 3 pp. in-8 in red ink, heading printed in green ink to his motto "Never more". "« ... Thank you for your communications on the Revue de Houssaye [Arsène Houssaye, assisted by Armand Silvestre, founded and directed from November 1887 the Revue de Paris et de Saint-Pétersbourg]. I am very willing to write in it and I authorize him, if he wishes, to announce my collaboration. But on the verge of making my autumn visit to Normandy, killed with intelligence by the infernal corrections of my work Les OEuvres et les hommes, which sums up my critical life, I am unable to write the article on Zola's Earth for the next and first issue of the review. When I see you, I will give you all my reasons. FOR ME, MR. ZOLA IS NO LONGER IN LITERATURE. He's not even a systematist in the fake. HE'S A JUNKIE SPECULATOR, WRITING FOR A DIRTY AUDIENCE, SURE TO MAKE MONEY. Money and scandal, that's what he's after! IF HE ONCE HAD A TALENT, WHICH I, FOR MY PART, ALWAYS FOUND MEDIOCRE, NOW HE HAS NONE AT ALL. To talk about his book, one would have to talk like him, which I neither want nor can. The importance, he no longer has, AND IS NO LONGER DIGITAL OF TWO LINES OF WRONG... »
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