MONTHERLANT (Henry de) - Lot 171

MONTHERLANT (Henry de) Born in Paris. 1895-1972. Novelist, playwright and academician. L.A.S. "Henry de Montherlant" to "Mon cher Grasset".S.l , April 20, 1967. 1 page in-4. Montherlant addresses to Grasset ...the article I wanted to publish on Clermont, in Le Figaro, the very day my Grand Prix des Lettres de lAcadémie was announced. A few weeks later, I gave a talk on him to the "Friends of 1914". You can see how dear the reissue of Amour Promis is to me... he notes, before adding: ...Don't forget to tell me your opinion of Les Jeunes Filles...Enclosed: L. typewritten S. "Montherlant" (signed instead by another person). Paris, April 20, 1967. 1 p.in-4....The meaning of Mariana's invocation, and I don't know how it could be done, she was addressing Jacinto, would be seen in the single phrase: "O dearest of all men!...". Mobilized and decorated in 1916, Henry de Montherlant drew from this experience an autobiographical novel, Songe, and Son chant funèbre pour les morts de Verdun. Many of his post-war works are marked by this taste for virile and fraternal values, right up to Les Jeunes Filles, a deliberately misogynistic four-volume novel that earned him international renown.From the 1940s onwards, theater plays an important part in his work: La Reine Morte, Fils de personne, Malatesta, Port-Royal...Émile Clermont was a novelist and former student of the Ecole Normale, born in 1880 and killed on the battlefield on March 5, 1916. His books include Laure and Amour Promis. His premature death prevented him from achieving lasting fame. Henry de Montherlant wrote that Emile Clermont was "one of the few writers killed by the war".