Octave MIRBEAU – Lettre autographe signée à A Daudet – Tartarin de Tarascon 1890

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Start of the sale:
Wednesday, July 16, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Item n°2322566577
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Wednesday, September 3, 2025 at 10:08 AM

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Octave MIRBEAU – Lettre autographe signée à A Daudet – Tartarin de Tarascon 1890

Octave Mirbeau (1848-1917), écrivain, critique d'art.

Lettre autographe signée adressée à l’écrivain Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897), 1 p in 8., circa 1890.

Lettre relative au roman Port Tarascon de Daudet, publié en 1890, dernier volet des aventures de Tartarin de Tarascon. Mirbeau se montre enthousiaste pour ce dernier volet et le personnage de Tartarin (« personnage humain qui a tous nos enthousiasmes… toutes nos déceptions…jouit dans la douleur »). La mort de Tartarin lui sonne comme un ennoblissement et laisse à son souvenir une grande pitié.

« Mon cher maître,

Je vous remercie de m'avoir envoyé votre Port-Tarascon. Votre dédicace est incomplète, car vous auriez pu y ajouter aussi : en pleurant. Le rire si gai, si plein de grâce, l’ironie charmante y montrent de vraies larmes [...] et d’une tristesse suprême.

Comme votre livre fourmille de choses admirables, mon cher maître, [...]. Lorsque vous montrez Tartarin songeant à Napoléon, Napoléon à Thémistocle, toute l’humanité : [...] marchant toujours dans les pas de quelqu’un. [...]

Ce qui me plait infiniment dans votre Tartarin, c’est qu’il est, avant tout, un personnage humain, et non point seulement méridional. Il a tous nos enthousiasmes, toutes nos hableries, toutes nos déceptions. Et il jouit dans la douleur. Je regrette qu’il soit mort, mais je ne pouvais rever pour lui une fin qui l’ennoblisse davantage, et qui laisse à son souvenir, de la grande pitié.

Je vous serre bien affectueusement la main, et je voudrais savoir que vous êtes heureux et que vos souffrances vous laissent un peu de répit. »

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DIASCORN JULIEN
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