Autograph Letters, Manuscripts & Historical Documents
Mar 15, 2023
Urbanizacion El Real del Campanario. E-12, Bajo B 29688 Estepona (Malaga). SPAIN, Spain
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RIBEIRO COUTO RUI: (1898-1963) Brazilian poet, short-story writer and diplomat, a leading figure of Modernism in its infancy. Manuscript D.S., Ribeiro Couto, one page, 4to, Geneva, n.d. (1946), in French. Ribeiro Couto responds to a researcher's questionnaire entitled Enquete Mondiale ('World Survey'), with their manuscript questions at the head of the page, '1. Vos débuts littéraires furent-ils heureux ou difficiles? 2. Des moyens d'existence (un second metier ou une fortune personelle) vous permirent-ils de vous faire un nom dans les lettres, ou ne vecuites-vous que de votre plume? 3. Quel ouvrage vous fit-il le plus connaitre? Lequel considerez-vous comme votre chef d'oeuvre?' (Translation: '1. Were your literary beginnings happy or difficult? 2. Did the means of existence (a second job or a personal fortune) allow you to make a name for yourself in letters, or do you only live from your pen? 3. What book did you know the most about? Which do you consider your masterpiece?'). Ribeiro Couto provides his answers beneath, in full, '1. Je suis toujours, a 48 ans, a mes debuts litteraires - comme aux temps du lycee. Et ces debuts sont toujours difficiles, car je n'ai jamais reussi a faire ce que je voulais.....et que je veux encore. 2. Mon vrai metier c'est le journalisme. Pourtant, me voici dans la diplomatie depuis presque vingt ans. Helas! 3. Je ne suis comme que de quelques lecteurs, tres peu nombreux, et je n'ai ecrit aucun chef d'oeuvre. Mais ce viendra peut-etre. Pourquoi pas?' (Translation: 'I am still, at 48, in my literary debut - like in high school. And these beginnings are always difficult, because I never managed to do what I wanted….and still want. 2. My real job is journalism. However, here I am in diplomacy for almost twenty years. Alas! 3. I am like only a few readers, very few, and I have not written any masterpieces. But maybe it will come. Why not?'). Some very light, extremely minor age wear to the edges, otherwise VG

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