AUTOGRAPHS, LETTERS & MANUSCRIPTS AUCTION
Jul 13, 2022
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LOT 683:

TURGENEV IVAN: (1818-1883) Russian Novelist and Playwright. Very rare A.L.S., `I. Tourgueneff

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TURGENEV IVAN: (1818-1883) Russian Novelist and Playwright. Very rare A.L.S., `I. Tourgueneff

TURGENEV IVAN: (1818-1883) Russian Novelist and Playwright. Very rare A.L.S., `I. Tourgueneff´, one page, 8vo, St. Petersbourg, Wednesday 24th/12th March 1880, as Editor of the Messager d´Europe, to Emile Zola, in French. Turgenev apologizes for his late letter and explains that is mind is somewhere else since he came back to St. Petersburg, stating in part `Mon cher ami, il y a longtemps que j´aurais du vous écrire, et je viens vous faire mes excuses. Mais depuis que je suis ici, je n´ai vraiment pas la tête a moi, et c´est dans un tourbillon que je vis´ (My dear friend, I should have written to you a long time ago, and I come to apologize to you. But since I've been here, I really don't have my mind focused on what I should, and it's in a whirlwind that I live") Further Turgenev refers to Zola´s work, saying `J´ai parlé avec Stassioulevitch de votre proposition relativement a la biographie. Il trouve cet ouvrage trop volumineux pour une revue, et il préfere en faire des extraits pour ses lecteurs une fois qu´il aura paru´ ("I have spoken to Stassioulevitch about your proposal related to the biography. He finds this work too voluminous for a magazine, and he prefers to make extracts from it for his readers, but once it has been published") Further again Turgenev refers to Zola´s work Nana, stating `Vous savez sans doute déja que la vente de Nana a été défendue ici - On trouve que cet ouvrage offense les moeurs. Pour avoir le droit de l´acheter il faut être un haut personage ou avoir le rang de Conseiller…´ ("You probably already know that the sale of Nana has been forbidden here - they consider that this book offends morals. To have the right to buy it you must be an important person or have the rank of counselor..") Before concluding Turgenev explains to Zola his near future travelling plans, including Paris in May, and shakes his hand friendly. An extraordinary letter exchange between two of the leading novelists of the 19th century. With blank integral leaf. Edges with small remnants of former affixing, otherwise G    

 

Emile Zola (1840-1902) French Writer. Nominated for the first and second award of the Nobel of literature in 1901 and 1902. A leading figure in the political liberalization of France.

 

Le Messager de l´Europe was a s a Petersburg newspaper which was first published in 1802 and which appeared until the 1830s twice a month. It moved to a conservative orientation from 1815. In 1814 they published Pushkin's poem To the Poet Friend. The idea of resuming the title and making it a quarterly review, in 1866, belonged to Mr. Stassioulevitch who directed it until 1908. The review became monthly in 1869 and ceased publication in 1918. Famous writers published extracts from their works or wrote articles, such as Turgenev, Ivan Goncharov or Alexander Ostrovsky. From the 1880s, the review took a rather "bourgeois-liberal" orientation and opposed the Marxism.

 

Nana is a novel by Emile Zola. Completed in 1880, Nana is the ninth installment in the 20-volume Les Rougon-Macquart series. The novel was an immediate success.


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