Marcel Aymé, Autograph letter, manuscript, signed 1954

  

An/Year: Author: Ayme Marcel Editor: Language: French Format: Dimension: Condition: Used - Very good condition. Beautiful signed autograph letter from Marcel Aymé (French writer and playwright, 1902 - 1967) dated March 24, 1954, to an unknown recipient (Dear Sir).

Aymé gently refuses to provide him with information about himself for a study on him. Condition: very good, slight signs of folding. Neither to the left nor to the right, Marcel Aymé is a writer who does not belong to any school or party. Very provincial without being regionalist, indifferent to the literary quarrels of his time, he is an atypical writer in the French literary landscape of the mid-20th century. While his influences are difficult to decipher, his language finds its source and its benchmarks in the 17th century French.

Although we often swim with him in the realm of the supernatural, Marcel Aymé is indeed a lover of clarity and logic. Like André Gide, he is one of those who animate and sustain a certain classical ideal. Your project to write a study about me deeply touches me, and I am very grateful in advance.

However, I will not provide you with any of the information you request and which you will find elsewhere without difficulty. I do not wish to collaborate, even in the slightest way, on a study concerning me.

I do not want to influence in any way the judgment you have of me and my writings. Please excuse me for this refusal. And believe, if you please, in my feelings of deep sympathy.