Pierre Lagarde - Méditation, coupures de journaux, lettres, Hors texte... - Divers documents ayant servi à la préparation de son livre : Max Jacob. Mystique et Martyr - 1944

Collection of documents concerning Max Jacob, used by Pierre Lagarde for the preparation of his book: Max Jacob. Mystic and Martyr.

- Typed meditation on the Blessed Virgin Mary, with strikeouts and corrections in ink and pencil by Pierre Lagarde.

- Newspaper clippings concerning the death of Max Jacob

- Working notes: Biographical notes and excerpts from Max Jacob's published works, written by Pierre Lagarde

- Originals or first editions of Hors Textes published in Pierre Lagarde's book (Poems, drawings, etc...)

- Letters from Max Jacob to Pierre Lagarde, rewritten by Pierre Lagarde.

Etat: Good overall condition. See photos for more details.

These documents stem from an exceptional collection of correspondence, 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: Mystic or Martyr (Éditions Universitaires, 1959). They testify to a close intellectual and spiritual relationship between the two men. Pierre Lagarde, an attentive reader and faithful friend, drew from the meditations, inventions and letters that Jacob entrusted to him the very material of his work. These pieces, of a mystical 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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