Émile Chartier dit ALAIN (1868-1951). MANUSCRIT... - Lot 228 - Métayer-Mermoz Maison de Ventes aux Enchères Moulins

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Émile Chartier dit ALAIN (1868-1951). MANUSCRIT... - Lot 228 - Métayer-Mermoz Maison de Ventes aux Enchères Moulins
Émile Chartier dit ALAIN (1868-1951). MANUSCRIT autograph signed, Propos d'un Normand; 2 pages in-8. On the uselessness of statues of great men. "We are going to raise another statue to BEETHOVEN. [] Nothing replaces music; if you want Beethoven to be known, loved, admired by everyone, you must not show them his bust; you must let them hear his music. The same goes for a novelist, for a playwright, for a poet; their true image is in their works. If instead of a marble Balzac, you had given us a paper Balzac, a beautiful Balzac printed correctly, easy to read, at ten cents a volume, you could say that you have raised a monument to the glory of Balzac. [] I can go to see Flaubert for nothing, in the square of the rue Thiers. But what? He reminds me of many Normans I have known. He teaches me nothing about Sentimental Education, nor about Bouvard and Pécuchet. That statues representing beauties be made. "But don't show me a painter with his jacket, his beret, and his palette. Show me his works; or make good copies of them; we could do it with the money that a bad statue costs. A mimeographed text of TEILHARD DE CHARDIN, Comment je crois (21 p. in-4, with some handwritten annotations) is attached.
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