Max Jacob - Mystique et Martyr - Noël - Manuscrit autographe - Notes sur la méditation - 25 Décembre - 1939

Remarkable autograph spiritual meditation written on December 25, 1939 at Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire, sent to the front to Brigadier Pierre Lagarde, with its stamped and postmarked expedition envelope. Written in brown ink on a sheet of laid paper.

« Consider the virtues of the characters of the Gospel and apply oneself
1° to avoid the sins that separate them from it
a/ mortal
b/ venial
2° to practice the same virtues.
Example :
+ The heroism of Our Lord who leaves Paradise to come to suffer with men in order to give them his blood which is spirit. [...] »

Dimensions: 20.6 x 26.7 cm.
State: Small tears at the folds of the envelope. Fine condition. See photos for more details.
Number of pages: 2 pages

These documents come from an exceptional collection of correspondences, manuscripts and notes dating from 1939-1940 by Max Jacob, a major figure of French symbolism and modernism, who was at once a poet, novelist, painter and mystic, and Pierre Lagarde, author of Max Jacob: mystique ou martyr (Éditions Universitaires, 1959). They attest to a close intellectual and spiritual relationship between the two men. Pierre Lagarde, a careful reader and faithful friend, drew from the meditations, inventions and letters that Jacob had entrusted to him the very material of his work. These pieces, of a mystic and poetic scope, illustrate the direct transmission between Max Jacob’s spiritual experience and the critical interpretation Lagarde gave it.

These documents are essential to understanding Jacob’s last creative period and the work undertaken by Pierre Lagarde to preserve its depth and religious dimension.

- Max Jacob, born Max Jacob Alexandre on July 12, 1876 in Quimper and died March 5, 1944 in Drancy, is a modernist poet and novelist but also a French painter. Wikipedia

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