Paul Léautaud - Journal littéraire 1893-1956 + Index - 1986

Second edition of Paul Léautaud's literary journal published in three volumes by Mercure de France. The original was published by the same publisher (1954-1966).

We are including the fourth volume, the Index (History of the Journal, Pages Recovered), compiled by Pascal Fouché following the traces of Étienne Buthaud, displaying 448 pages (very rare).

Volume 1: November 1893 – June 1928, 2,296 pages.

Volume 2-: June 1928 – February 1940, 2,184 pages.

Volume 3: February 1940 – February 1956, 2,114 pages.

Bound volumes, full publisher's cloth, with dust jacket and slipcase. - Dust jackets slightly sunned at the spines, copy in excellent condition.

Major work by Paul Léautaud (to which he dedicated over 60 years), where he recounts, day by day, under direct impression, the events that affect him.

I have lived only to write. I have felt, seen, and heard things, feelings, and people only to write. I preferred this over material happiness and easy reputations. I often even sacrificed my immediate pleasure, my deepest secrets and affections, even the happiness of some beings, to write what pleased me to write. I hold a profound happiness from all of this.

In addition to over 6,000 pages, he discusses his stormy love affairs with Anne Cayssac, known as 'Le Fléau,' his numerous pets, and also everyone from the literary world he encountered at the Mercure: Gide, Schwob, Colette, Jouhandeau, Cocteau, Drieu, Ernst Jünger, and others...

Marie Dormoy, who became his lover in 1933, was his universal legatee and testamentary executor, and she contributed to publishing and making his Journal littéraire known after his death.

Paul Léautaud
Literary Journal 1893-1956 and Index
Paris, Thank you from France, 1986
in-8 (6.7 x 4.7 inches)