MONTHERLANT (Henry de). Autograph letter signed addressed to a fellow writer

  
Autograph letter signed, addressed to a fellow writer. 1 and a half pages, quarto, undated.

An interesting letter about his first novel, Le Songe. “I have read your review of Le Songe, and I quite agree with you about the poor quality of a large part of the plot... I wondered whether I should not rewrite it completely, since I have what it takes to succeed in doing so. Perhaps I shall do it one day. It is rather in Chant funèbre [1924] than in Le Songe that I say things sometimes rather close to those of M.

We have said things so close that the sentences are sometimes almost the same.”

He would be happy to meet his correspondent and offers to bring him personally a copy of his forthcoming novel La Rose de Sable.

In 1930, the posthumous edition of Maximes sur la guerre by René Quinton, a volunteer like Montherlant in the 1914–18 conflict, was published.

AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND MANUSCRIPTS; First World War; MONTHERLANT (Henry de).