"Lettres françaises".

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"Lettres françaises".
Quarterly notebooks of French literature, edited by the magazine "SUR" with the collaboration of French writers living in France and abroad. N° 1, 3, 4, 5, 7/8, 9, 10, 11, 17/20. Buenos Aires, SUR, 1942-1947, 9 vols. 8°, br. (covers slightly soiled, wetness on lower edge of nos. 1, 3, 5 and 17/20, lack of spine of 5th vol.) A second copy of nos. 7/8 and 10 is enclosed. Review directed by Roger Caillois who took refuge in Argentina during the Second World War. In 1938, Caillois met the Argentinean writer, editor and patron Victoria Ocampo. She invited him to stay with her in Argentina during the Second World War. Committed to the Free French, he joined the local Free French Committee, directed the French Institute in Buenos Aires and launched the review "Lettres françaises", which he worked on with the help of his wife, Yvette, who had come to join him in Argentina in 1940. Among the contributors to the magazine were the greatest names in French literature of the time: A. Gide, J. Supervielle, A. Malraux, A. Breton, J. Maritain, J. Benda, St. John Perse, M. Yourcenar, Etiemble, J.P. Sartre, Aragon, A. Camus, H. Michaux, J.-L. Borgès, F. Ponge, Victor Ocampo, etc. No. 17/20 is devoted to "La littérature française depuis la libération". Extremely rare (and not to be confused with "Les Lettres françaises", a literary review created in France in 1941 by Jacques Decour and Jean Paulhan). The complete collection consists of 20 issues in 16 volumes / 11 vol. set.
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