Jacques Audiberti to Jean Paulhan, 1933-1965
Jacques AudibertiJean PaulhanThis correspondence only contains the letters from Audiberti, the letters from Paulhan have been lost
Why in a “Cahier Paulhan” only letters from Audiberti?
This is because, if the director of La NRF had kept all of his friend's letters, it was not the same for Audiberti. He often moved, looking for a room, in the 5th arrondissement, cut off from the world and noise... dragging his difficulty in living from one to the other, perpetually undecided, unsatisfied, bruised... leaving behind letters and poems.
To tell the truth, we can almost imagine Paulhan's responses: his encouragement or his reproaches, his enthusiasm or his criticism, his advice, his refusals... and his tireless patience.
Besides, he has a lot to do, deciphering missives of fifteen to twenty pages, scribbled, crossed out, in a flood of ideas and a baroque style, or judging a novel whose ending is not written, whose beginning is missing, whose middle is not the right one and whose order of chapters must change. But the writer justifies himself, explains himself in detail, dissects his hesitations, his repentances, his torments.
It must also be added that Audiberti draws with ease and vigorous roundness.
Thus, all of the writer's work passes through Jean Paulhan, in these often moving letters where family concerns, projects, fantasies, hopes, remorse, everything that makes the Audiberti man combine.
Publisher : Gallimard