COCTEAU Jean

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COCTEAU Jean
9 autograph MANUSCRITS,[Monologues et chansons, 1940 ?]; 21 pages in-4. Important set of songs and monologues written for Jean Marais. It is believed that these texts were written in part in the summer of 1940, in Perpignan where the exodus led Cocteau, and where Jean Marais, demobilized, came to join him. These monologues and songs were collected in the Théâtre de poche (Paul Morihien, 1949), and performed in the Théâtre complet de la Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, to which we refer. Jean Marais recorded some of these songs in 1965. The Liar (5 pages in-4, Pl. 1344), a monologue in which Cocteau develops the theme dear to him of the liar's paradox. This text was said on the radio by Jean Marais with musical accompaniment by Jean Wiener. "I would like to tell the truth. I like the truth. But she doesn't love me. Am I a liar? Do I ask you? I'm more of a lie. A lie that always tells the truth." This is followed by a quatrain (after a crossed-out sixteenth) not included in the published version. The castle stuffing (3 pages in-4 and 1 page in-fol., Pl. 1351). "I have a habit of deception and farce".... Monologue by a tutor who, to make a joke, disguises himself as a ghost, as well as his students, who discover their mother going to meet her lover. The last page, in pencil, a little split, uses a page from an album with a drawing on the back. The Assassin] (5 pages in-4, Pl. 1354), monologue in verse, in a version longer than the one published (see Pl. 1825), with erasures and corrections. Confession of an assassin whom we do not believe: "There are people who are fed dreams/And who suffer from having read too much/Me I have made too many lies/My drama is that people no longer believe me".... Song spoken (1 page in-4, Pl. 1355), working manuscript of this song with erasures and corrections, in 9 numbered quatrains (8 in the published version, the 9th unpublished). "There are lyrics/Who are worth songs/Word and song steal/each in their
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