JK Huysmans autographed letter signed to O Uzanne Felicien Rops Satanic 1889

  

French writer and art critic. Signed autograph letter to Octave UZANNE. In-8, header of the Ministry of the Interior. Huysmans mentions a writing project on Rops regarding the Sataniques by Félicien Rops, surely the text that will be published in Certains (Paris, Tresse & Stock, 1889). He would like to come to take notes on Octave Uzanne's proofs, for the "good cause"!

The letter is also revealing of the intellectual prison that represents the work of the author of Against Nature at the Ministry of the Interior. I would very much like to spend 20 minutes at your place, without bothering you, after leaving my office, in order to take the few notes I need on the Sataniques, for the work I am about to start on my friend Rops. What day would be least inconvenient for you.

I could not - assuming I am not detained until 6 o'clock in the awful box, try to escape around 5 o'clock - which is already quite late, alas! Well, sorry for these disturbances. It's for a good cause! Yours sincerely my dear friend. Peladan: "Satan sowing the tares", "The Abduction", "The Sacrifice", "The Idol" and "The Calvary".

Regarding Félicien Rops, he concludes his study by stating: "In short, he celebrated the spiritualism of Lust that is Satanism, painted, in impeccable pages, the supernatural of perversity, the beyond of Evil" Certains, p. Precious autograph document for any fan of the work of Félicien Rops... But also of Octave Uzanne!