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Jean GENET & Jean COCTEAU

Les nègres

L'Arbalète, Décines 1958, 14,5x19,5cm, broché.

First Edition, one of 250 copies hors commerce on Lana. Autograph signed by Jean Cocteau Marc (Barbezat): "This admirable clowning" enriched with a beautiful original drawing, signed and dated in black ballpoint pen and raised in ink representing the face of a young man profile. Autograph signature of Jean Genet bottom of the justification of the draw. The relationship between Cocteau, Genet and Barbezat is a great human adventure and editorial that allowed the emergence of a single writer. First published clandestinely in full occupancy, Genet entered the world of publishing with Cocteau takes passion for the young thug in February 1943 at the reading of his poems: "protected by unprintable eroticism, not that can be read in secret, that slip from hand to hand. " At the instigation of the poet, Genet signed his first publishing contract with the young Paul Morihien publishes Robert Denoël, Our Lady of the flowers, but he refuses to affix the name Genet on the cover. Cocteau protests against Denoël, this "ugly sir" and encouraged to seek Genet Marc Barbezat, director of the glossy magazine Lyon: The Crossbow it prints itself on his hand press. Genet wrote Prison Health in November 1943. At the request of Cocteau, the young publisher, also rich pharmacist shall guarantee to the prefect of police and agreed to publish without censorship works sour novelist. Collaboration, based on a relationship of trust but a stormy friendship, allowed the publication of eleven beautiful editions under the guidance of his friend and mentor Jean Cocteau in 1943, already proclaimed before the criminal court trying Genet for stealing a valuable edition of Verlaine: "What say you of Jean Genet? This is the greatest writer of the century, and believe me, I do know! ". Nice copy.

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