APOLLINAIRE (Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, known as G - Lot 159

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APOLLINAIRE (Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, known as G - Lot 159
APOLLINAIRE (Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, known as Guillaume). Autograph manuscript signed "Guillaume Apollinaire", entitled "LesLivres". [1909]. 3pp. in-8. Collection of essays by Georges Grappe published in 1909 by Stock Dans le Jardin de Sainte-Beuve: "...What a pleasure it must have been for the essayist to imagine a posthumous conversation with the author of Les Lundis and to gather his judgment on contemporary letters. "I've just read the lesser-known works of the last ten years - poems and prose. I've tried to identify the common aspirations, the ideal that marks a whole literary generation for life and sometimes for immortality. All I found was incoherence, precocious professionalism and the neglect of your elders, readjusted to your size. The best of you, the most gifted of you, what have they brought to the table, I don't mean something new - humanity has long since stopped making anything but the old new - but something renewed?" This ghost is ferocious. M.Grappe, who saw him in a dream, had a nightmare... awake. He tired of admiring Hugo... With regard to George Sand, he makes the following comment: "French literature barely counts a few women's names". M.Georges Grappe concludes his essay on Mérimée, saying that he was perhaps: "a genius who did not dare... better said, who did not deign. For this reason, posterity will love in him only a first-rate talent." Of how many of Mérimée's contemporaries will posterity say the same?..." Also on William LeQueux's LaDame en bleu, and Jean d'Albrey's L'Orthographe et l'étymologie.
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