ANOUILH (Jean) - Lot 21

ANOUILH (Jean) Born in Bordeaux. 1910-1987. Playwright and screenwriter. L.A.S. "Jean Anouilh" to "Cher Roland" [Roland Laudenbach, nephew of actor Pierre Fresnay, founder of the Table Ronde publishing house]. S.l.n.d. 1 p. folio. Fold in the upper part of the letter without affecting the text. Anouilh settles some business: ...Send me back the paper; I was doing it as a favor to this guy you read the letter and I don't care. Are you trying to do an ordinary edition without engravings? I'd like to talk it over with you first, call me one morning...He adds in postscript ...Cau has to think of me for conditions that will improve my fiscal position (nice formula) Ask him please...Author of an abundant and varied theatrical work, Jean Anouilh himself organized his plays into thematic series: Black plays, pink plays, brilliant plays... Created in 1937, Le Voyageur sans bagage is the playwright's first great success.Jean Cau, 1925-1993, French writer, journalist and polemicist.