Description

Tapuscript entitled Paul Éluard10 pages in-4 (210 x 270 mm), sheets, some autograph corrections and additions.

The text presents several of the poet's poems: Je ne suis pas seul, Medieuses, Couvre-feu, Les armes de la douleur, L'Aube dissout les monstres, En plein mois d'Aût :

"Through the pale pre-war period, through the grey war of pre-1940, Paul Éluard's poetry retained its accent of rebellion, distress and love. In the dreariness of 1939, what could we cling to if not revolt, where could we turn to escape our solitude if not to women and love [...]".

"The love of woman, the freedom of love, love in all its splendour. Éluard sings like no other. His Médieuses emerge from the night of desire dressed in the freshness of dawn. Delightful women, created by love and whose lives bear witness to their freedom [...]".

"Life of Love Never Weary: what remains of it after May 1940? Another reality had just emerged, terribly oppressive, terribly present: that of defeat and military occupation. It is up to the poet to pick himself up and oppose the inhuman reality of events with that of their hope and revolt [...]".

"Paul Éluard already had his beauty, the war allowed him to salute his justice."

This unpublished text was probably written for a radio broadcast.