[au sujet du Roi des Aulnes]

Name: [au sujet du Roi des Aulnes]
SKU: 14600
Price: 360 USD
Availability: InStock
Author: Michel Tournier

Paris, June 30, 1973.

2 pp. (210 x 297 mm) with manuscript corrections in blue ink and autograph signature.

Typed letter signed to Jacques Brenner: Tournier confesses that, in place of an abandoned publisher's insert, he used it himself and published it as a review of his own book under an assumed name!

A fine letter concerning the abandoned publisher’s insert for Le Roi des Aulnes, winner of the 1970 Prix Goncourt, which never appeared and was replaced by a short text on the dust-jacket flap. Tournier had wanted to write it himself, since “for nine years [he] wrote all the publisher’s inserts for Éditions Plon.”

Gallimard, however, put an end to the matter: the Collection Blanche did not carry publisher’s inserts. Tournier nonetheless found a clever use for his text: “I published it myself under a fanciful name as a review of Le Roi des Aulnes in a newspaper where I have connections. I won’t tell you which one. It is the finest jewel in my press book. One is never so well served as by oneself, etc.” Ladies and gentlemen, the investigation is open!

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