‎PAINTER (George D.) ‎
‎GIDE.‎

‎Catalogue de livres et manuscrits provenant de la bibliothèque de M. André Gide. Avec une préface de M. André Gide.‎

‎Paris Librairie Ancienne Honoré Champion 1925 Première édition. Bibliographie de la bibliothèque d'André Gide. Cette vente de ses uvres (405 lots vendus en deux jours en 1925) fut pour Gide un acte de « désencombrement » avant son départ pour le Congo en 1926. Elle lui donna également l'occasion de régler ses comptes avec d'anciens amis, dont il vendit les ouvrages dédicacés. La vente lui rapporta 123 000 francs (un peu plus de 27 000 euros aujourd'hui). Couverture originale en papier vert pâle. Celle-ci présente une légère usure sur les bords et a été renforcée avec du ruban adhésif d'archivage au niveau du dos. Intérieur propre et soigné, avec un léger noircissement des bords des pages uniquement. 72 pages. 25 cm x 17 cm. Rare dans tous les formats, mais aucun autre exemplaire avec sa couverture d'origine n'était disponible au moment du catalogage.‎

‎First edition. The bibliography of the library of André Gide. This sale of his works (405 items sold over two days over two days in 1925) was a act of "downsizing" for Gide, prior to his leaving for the Congo in 1926. It also gave him an opportunity to settle scores with former friends, whose inscribed works he sold. The sale raised him 123,000 Francs (a little over 27,000 today). Original pale green paper covers. These have a touch of edgewear and have been reinforced with archival tape to the spine. Internally clean and tidy with slight darkening to the page edges only. 72 pages. 25cm x 17cm. Scarce in any format, but no other copies in original covers at the time of cataloguing. .‎

‎Prétexte Les poisons toniques d'André Gide (Louis Martin-Chauffier) - L'oeuvre marchante d'André Gide (Franz Hellens) - Note (Roger Martin du Gard) - Sur quelques photos d'André Gide (René Etiemble) - André Gide, l'homme sans son oeuvre (Léon Pierre-Quint) - Quelques questions à propos d'André Gide (Léon Bopp) - L'impossible accaparement (Robert Mallet) - Gide psychologue (Roger Stéphane) - Hommage à André Gide (René Pauly) - André Gide et les littératures étrangères (Victor Misrahi) - ...‎

‎ N° 1 - Février 1952 - Cahiers trimestriels - Administrateur : Wladimir De Goghnieff - in-8 Broché - 102 pages‎

‎Papier légèrement jauni - Déchirure avec manque de papier sur la moitié supérieur du dos - intérieur propre - non massicoté ‎

‎Faire-part de décés de monsieur Jean, Paul, Guillaume Gide (père de l'écrivain André Gide)."Monsieur Paul Gide, monsieur André Gide, madame Gide [...] ont l'honneur de vous faire part de la perte [...] de monsieur Jean, Paul, Guillaume Gide, professeur à la Faculté de Droit de Paris, Président de la Société de Législation comparée, Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur, Officier de l'Instruction Publique, leur époux, père, fils [...] décédé en son domicile à Paris, 2 rue de Tournon, le 28 octobre 1880, à l'age de 48 ans.‎

‎ Paris, Administration Spéciale des Funérailles, 1880, 1 1 feuillet. ‎

‎Paul Gide, né à Uzès, descendant d'une austère famille huguenote, qui cultivait le souvenir des Dragonades et l'esprit de résistance. Il est le père de l'écrivain André Gide.Noms et familles citées: Gide, Rondeaux, Démarest, Granier, Briançon, Femvick, Widmer, Comte et comtesse de Flaux, Pascal, le Pasteur Salles, Fabre, le Pasteur Guillaume Granier, Nouguier, la Baronne de Feuchères, Farret de la Mairie, Dufresne, Prétavoine, Joly de Bammeville, Maurenq de Bammeville, Join-Lambert. ‎

‎Drei Abhandlungen zur Sexualtheorie. - [A SPLENDID COPY OF FREUD'S SECOND MAIN WORK, WITH AN INTERESTING NOTE FROM ANDRÉ GIDE]‎

‎Leipzig und Wien, 1905. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. Uncut and unopened. In perfect condition in- as well as ex-ternally. (2), 83 pp. Housed in a full burgundy cloth box with gilt leather title to spine. Inside of box with the book plate of Pierre Bergé. Laid in is a typed letter from André Gide with a four-line handwritten and signed (""André Gide"") note dated ""22 Avril 39"". ‎

‎Scarce first edition, in impeccable original condition and with an inlaid letter from André Gide, of one of Freud’s most significant works, his seminal Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality. It is this groundbreaking - and to this day highly controversial - work that lays the foundation for the concepts of penis envy, castration anxiety, and the Oedipus complex, apart from defining the entire theory of childhood sexuality. Together with The Interpretation of Dreams, The Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (also sometimes translated as Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex) constitutes the most significant of Freud’s works. It is here that the founder of psychoanalysis advances his theory of sexuality, in particular its relation to childhood, a theory that came to permeate through all of his later writings and that came to define psychoanalysis for decades to come. The book covered three main areas that remain at the heart of Freudian psychoanalysis: sexual perversions, childhood sexuality, and puberty. Die Sexuelle Abirrungen (""The Sexual Aberrations""), the first essay, commences by distinguishing between the sexual object and the sexual aim and tries to define what is “normal” within sexuality – an endeavor that in itself has been the cause of much controversy. Die infantile Sexualität (Infantile Sexuality), the second essay, controversially argues that children have sexual urges, from which adult sexuality only gradually emerges via psychosexual development. Looking at children, Freud identified several forms of infantile sexual emotions, including thumb sucking, autoeroticism, and sibling rivalry. Freud’s descriptions of infantile sexuality were considered outright scandalous and it would be another decade before they were reconized as essential to the understanding of human behavior and development. Freud's discovery of infantile sexuality radically altered the perception of the child from one of idealized innocence to one of a person struggling to achieve control of his or her biological needs and make them acceptable to society through the influence of his or her caregivers (see Fonagay and Target 2003). In Die Ungestaltungen der Pubertät (The Transformations of Puberty), the third essay, Freud formalised the distinction between the “fore-pleasures” of infantile sexuality and the “end-pleasure” of sexual intercourse. He also demonstrated how the adolescent years consolidate sexual identity under the dominance of the genitals. Freud himself considered his “Three Essays” the epitome of his work, in which he linked his theory of the unconscious as put forward in The Interpretation of Dreams and his studies of hysteria by positing sexuality as the driving force of both neuroses (through repression) and perversion. Laid-in is a machine-written letter from André Gide, with a four-line handwritten note to top, signed in full by André Gide and dated 22 of April 1939, five months before Freud dies. The letter is an hommage to Freud, excpressing gratitude and admiration for ""the great prospector, [who] freed himself from the shadows where many hideous ghosts and malevolent larvae lurked"" (translation from French). We do not know who the recipient of the letter was, and though it seems to have been meant for publication, perhaps in a celebratory volume for Freud, it never was. It comes from the collection of Philippe Helaers and was displayed at the 2007 UNESCO exhibition ""Are you a doctor, sir?"", in the honour of Freund. ""We learned of this beautiful letter from André Gide during the preparations for the exhibition, currently presented at Unesco: “Are you a doctor, sir? », organized in tribute to Sigmund Freud under the aegis of the School of the Freudian Cause.… Its owner, Mr Philippe Helaers, acquired it a few years ago in London, without the envelope which could have enlightened us as to its recipient. Was it James Strachey? Leonard Woolf? These are the most plausible hypotheses. The collection of tributes, in which it was to be published, never saw the light of day. Why ? We do not know. Did Freud read it? We don't know that either. In the quest to solve these conundrums, the Journal of André Gide is unfortunately of no help to us. The author of Terrestrial Foods – the only work by Gide listed in Freud’s library – always considered that he had practiced Freudianism without knowing it, in particular in his Corydon. In any case, the awe expressed in this letter clashes with the famous page of his diary, where he describes Freud as “an imbecile of genius”. That was, it is true, the day after his brief experience of psychoanalysis with Eugenia Sokolnicka. In Les Faux Monnayeurs, she is mentioned under the transparent pseudonym of Madame Sophroniska. The allusion to the unequal disciples of the master at the end of the 1939 letter is undoubtedly in allusion to this encounter."" (Translated from French from Dans la cause freudienne 2007). André Gide (1869-1951) was a highly important French author, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, considered ""France's greatest contemporary man of letters"" and ""judged the greatest French writer of this century by the literary cognoscenti"" (The New York Times). Gide's work centres around the reconciliation of freedom and empowerment with moralistic and puritan constraints. He continuously strives to towards intellectual honesty, and his self-exploratory texts are groundbreaking in their search of how to be fully oneself, including owning one's sexual nature, without at the same time betraying one's values. As a self-professed pederast, Freud's seminal ""Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality"" played a dominant role in his quest to understanding and owning his sexual nature. G&M: 4983 (""Freud opened up a new territoryfor exploration - the unconscious mind. His studies of the sexual instinct explained the reasons for, and suggested the treatment of, various perversions and neurotic conditions""). ‎

‎N Paris. 1869-1951. crivain , co-fondateur de la NRF en 1908. Prix Nobel de Littrature en 1947. L.A.S. Andr Gide Cher ami [Franois-Paul ALIBERT]. S.l.n.d., Jeudi [Paris (?), 27 septembre 1928] 2 pages in-8 sur papier vlin rose (fente au pli mdian, trous d pingle).‎

‎ Belle lettre au pote carcassonnais Franois-Paul ALIBERT, ami de longue date d'Andr Gide qu'il avait rencontr en 1907. Gide fera ...limpossible pour venir passer prs de toi quelques jours, fin Octobre. Que ne puis-je te retrouver plus tt ! Ce petit voyage en auto et t merveilleux, et hier je dlibrais, examinant si je ne pouvais te rejoindre Toulon ou Marseille... Mais je me dois dabord Cuverville... pour rejoindre son pouse.Revenant une discussion antrieure, il prcise : ...Jespre que tu ne tes pas mpris : au-del ne voulait pas dire au dessus . Je nai jamais eu la prtention de dominer la situation . Simplement, la vie continuant, jai pass outre ; et, une fois doubl cet affreux cap des temptes, ne me suis plus jamais senti tout fait le mme quauparavant. Depuis, je te lai dit, il me semble que je ne fais plus que semblant de vivre et la mort ne me fera plus tomber de bien haut...Il enchane : ...Je dois voir Malraux ces jours-ci [...]. Ce que tu me dis de notre prjug classique me ravit, et de ce besoin de ne rien dire que par rticence. Oui, cest exactement contre cela que je me retourne aujourdhui. Mais toute ta lettre mexalte et chauffe blanc mon dsir, mon besoin de te revoir...En post-scriptum, il ajoute : ...Je tai fait adresser Carcassonne un Contes damour des Samouras [de Saikakou Ebara, traduit en franais pour la premire fois en 1927 par Ken Sato]... Il lui signale une ...amusante coquille dans tes Jeux deaux de la Villa dEste [...]. Au lieu dAmintas de Tasse, par mimtisme sans doute, tu as mis Amyntas...Enfin : ...Excellent tout ce que tu dis de dAnnunzio...Gide note dans son Journal la date du 30 octobre 1927 : Je nai pas un ami avec lequel je me sente plus parfaitement mon aise, cest--dire avec qui je doive prendre moins de prcautions pour parler .Franois-Paul Alibert (n Carcassonne, 1873-1953) est un pote, crivain et dramaturge. Proche des potes du renouveau noclassique l'aube du XXe sicle, il se rclamait de l'cole romane et de Jean Moras. Fr.-P. Alibert publia son premier recueil de posies L'arbre qui saigne , en 1907, l'anne o il rencontra Andr Gide. Ce dernier resta son ami pendant quarante ans. Gide organise chaque anne un voyage dans le Midi avec Alibert au cours duquel les deux amis partagent leurs dcouvertes littraires et leur got pour les amours " corydoniennes ". Entre temps, les deux hommes changent une trs riche correspondance (publie en 1982). Son ?uvre compte une quarantaine de titres auxquels on peut ajouter deux rcits rotiques. Il fut plac par ses contemporains la hauteur de Paul Valry. Retrait de ladministration en 1933, Alibert va se consacrer au Thtre de la Cite, le thtre antique de Carcassonne, dont il devient en 1930 le directeur.Bibliographie : Correspondance dAndr Gide et de Franois-Paul Alibert : 1907-1950 , dition tablie, prsente et annote par Claude Martin (Lyon, Presses universitaires de Lyon, 1982) ; celle-ci recense plus de 400 lettres de Gide Franois-Paul Alibert. ‎