Lot n° 236
Estimation :
600 - 800
EUR
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: 837EUR
- Lot 236
HUYSMANS, Joris-Karl (1848-1907). Set of 10 pieces: 4 L.A.S., 2 B.A.S., 2 C.A.S. and 2 C.V.A.S., addressed to the lawyer and friend of naturalists Gabriel Thyébaut (1854-1922). [Paris], 1891. 12 pp. in-8, in-12, in-12 oblong and in-16 oblong.
About Là-bas: Huysmans is "too crowded with proofs and overloaded with corrections", then agonized by neuralgia caused by the heat.
About Proust: "A friend of mine, strongly protected by the important Lord who is called Proust, would like to find a place, thanks to him. I think of the Public Assistance". He wants to know the places and the treatments.
About his health: "What weather! Is it possible to be ensalope by the storm, thus!", then "what étroniforme dirt that the bronchial tubes", "I am between the hands of the upholsterers it is like a removal, all my trinkets are on the ground", "I am in the purgatives and other medicinal refuse because of intractable shits", etc.
About his mistress, Anna Meunier, suffering from general paralysis of the insane: "[...] I have lived the most painful week of my life and the acute state is not yet over. My poor Anna absolutely refuses to let herself be taken to a home; her dreadful family does not care for her and it is the police who have to take her to St. Anne's. [The abominable kidnapping of this unfortunate woman is going to take place, probably on Saturday [...]. Huysmans begs Thyébaut to intervene so that she stays in Paris and is not put in the provinces and adds "I have a broken heart my poor friend". "The time of the high shit is over for me. The unfortunate Anna is almost insane", he tries to have her placed "what a mess life is all the same".
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