AMROUCHE (Jean). - Lot 17

AMROUCHE (Jean). Born in Ighil Ali (Algeria). 1906-1962. Writer, journalist, radio broadcaster. Director of the magazine L'Arche published in Algiers, then Paris by Edmond Charlot. L.A.S. "Jean Amrouche" to "Monsieur" [to philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty] [Paris], March 8, 1945. 1 page in-8. Letterhead for the literary journal "L'Arche". Amrouche has read in "Les Temps modernes" (a magazine founded by Merleau-Ponty and Sartre) ...Your article: "La guerre a eu lieu". I'd like to tell you that I took more than pleasure in it. You set out, with uncommon clarity, what many of us were thinking and feeling in a rather confused way... You entrusted a text to LArche, then thought you had to take it back. I deeply regret this. LArche is a monthly French literary magazine created in Algiers in 1944, in the climate of the Liberation, by the poet and journalist Jean Amrouche, with Jacques Lassaigne, under the patronage of André Gide. The magazine is edited by Edmond Charlot, who was the leading publisher in Algiers. Produced under difficult material conditions, in the midst of a paper shortage, L'Arche attempted to prepare for the Liberation in literature, with contributions from the most prestigious writers: André Gide, Pierre-Jean Jouve, Pierre Emmanuel, Henri Bosco, Marie-Jeanne Dury, Henri Paul, Pierre Jarry, Jacques Lassaigne, Jacques Meyer... In serial form, it published Henri Bosco's novel Le Mas Théotime, which won the Prix Renaudot that same year. After the Liberation, the magazine continued in Paris, with 26 issues published between 1944 and 1947.