1949 French Letter: Post War Feelings By French Author (Transcibed)

Translation Bale, August 11, 1949 My dear Lepas, Here we are separated, perhaps forever, after a year of collaboration. It seems that we get used to a departure that repeats itself over the years. On the contrary, the older one gets, the more one feels crushed by the mass of dead and one grasps the full scope of Proust's reflection: "Everyone is truly alone." From these absences, we keep in ourselves beautiful images that our spirit has been able to remove the dust that would have tarnished them. I always come back to the good Lepas... but I'm stopping here for my portrait. As for my image, you have perceived it in a very bad mirror - that you can only see pale and grimacing. Perhaps you will see it a little better - in this work that is not a dissertation on a school theme, but a justification of my deep tendencies, deep down, a plea pro domo. I wish you, dear Lepas, after your hard years of apprenticeship, the happiness of a home that children brighten and the few hours of daily leisure that will allow you to write the work of your life. On this commentary on Callimachus, or this meditation on the sirens of the Rhine that you hear, you are not as well armed as Ulysses, send me one for me to have great pleasure. Yours truly, Walter Lacher Walter Lacher was a French author who wrote critical works on French literature, such as L'amour et le divin: Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Anna de Noailles, David-Herbert Lawrence, Charles Morgan and Le réalisme dans le roman contemporain Pick up in James Island near folly beach or can ship via USPS.

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