Robert Gallimard 1925 2013 (1 results)

Condition: Good. Audio archives: 2 audio cassettes and 9 CDs of interviews with Simone de Beauvoir for projected Gallimard publications. .Unpublished audio interviews to prepare the books: 2 audio cassettes (and 2 CDs): interviews of Simone de Beauvoir with Claude Francis in 1976 (June 9 and June 22). Plus 7 CDs of interviews with Simone de Beauvoir in 1985-1986. These recordings are accompanied by documents: the publishing contract with Gallimard (photocopy); 2 L.S. by Robert Gallimard to the two authors (January 6, 1978 and May 30, 1980); 2 autograph sheets signed by Simone de Beauvoir authorizing Claude Francis to make photocopies and copies of various documents; a contract with Einaudi.Set of preparatory documents for "Les Écrits de Simone de Beauvoir, " by Claude Francis and Dr. Fernande Gontier, a scholar who received her PhD in French from the University of Virginia in 1973. She has many iworks in collaboration with Claude Francis--on French literary figures including Colette and Simone de Beauvoir. A copy of the book "Les Écrits de Simone de Beauvoir" (Paris, Gallimard, 1979, in-8, paperback), with a mailing from Fernande Gontier (February 1980). Following her refusal to print the Postscript to the Second Sex, Beauvoir agreed to let her editors publish texts following her bibliography, in preparation since 1975. These writings include many original texts, published for the first time in book form, including the first two chapters of the novel L'Invitée, Brigitte Bardot et le syndrome Lolita, the first French-language edition of this essay published in English in Esquire . Provenance: Aristophil Collection, Paris.