5 letters from the poet and writer Jean Rousselot, addressed to Max Bilen

5 letters from the poet and writer Jean Rousselot, addressed to Max Bilen

Document type : signed autograph letters

Number of documents: 5 - Number of pages: 9 p. - Size: In-4 and in-8

Place : L'Étang-la-Ville and sl

Date : 1985-1989

RECIPIENT : Max Bilen (1916–1995), poet and scholar

State : Good. Wetness at the bottom of a letter with erased ink. Holes in a post.

Set of 5 letters from the poet and writer Jean Rousselot, addressed to Max Bilen.

Beautiful friendly correspondence imbued with reflections on the poet's condition, drawn from the work of Max Bilen, in particular The subject of writing. “[…] I am struck by the comparison between Jewishness and the kind of Negritude that is the condition of the poet. Except that the poet is a member of a community cursed rather than chosen, which did not have to undergo exile since it is exile itself, despite my assertion (there is no exile – 1954) more ontological it is true than poetic, nor to undergo genocide, being obvious that it is, quite Darwinically, on the way to extinction. That poetry remains "the absolute real" as Novalis told us, that is what I continue to believe […]. In my big essay Death or Survival of Language (1968), I tried to show in what interval between the thing and the language that says it are sometimes situated the object and the subject of poetry […]”.

Black or blue ink and ballpoint pen.
Jean Rousselot (Poitiers, 1913/2004)
French poet and writer.
 
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Beautiful friendly correspondence imbued with reflections on the poet's condition, drawn from the work of Max Bilen, in particular The subject of writing. “[…] I am struck by the comparison between Jewishness and the kind of Negritude that is the condition of the poet. Except that the poet is a member of a community cursed rather than chosen, which did not have to undergo exile since it is exile itself, despite my assertion (there is no exile – 1954) more ontological it is true than poetic, nor to undergo genocide, being obvious that it is, quite Darwinically, on the way to extinction. That poetry remains "the absolute real" as Novalis told us, that is what I continue to believe […]. In my big essay Death or Survival of Language (1968), I tried to show in what interval between the thing an