AMANN (Paul). Born in Prague. 1884-1958. Austrian writer and - Lot 20

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AMANN (Paul). Born in Prague. 1884-1958. Austrian writer and - Lot 20
AMANN (Paul). Born in Prague. 1884-1958. Austrian writer and translator. During the Second World War, he emigrated to France, then to the United States. In 1915, he had an epistolary relationship with the great Thomas Mann. L. dactyl. S. "Paul Amann" to "My dear friend" [writer Pierre Abraham]. S.l., S.d. [December 18]. 2 pages in-4. Congratulates his addressee on his work devoted to Proust, just published in the N.R.F., and expresses his deep satisfaction on reading it: ...I felt in your pages something like a definitive clarification (...) of an author who has caused so much ink to flow. You're hard on the man, but you had to be to give the artist his rightful place. As for the latter, you still owe us many more analyses (...) But this chapter already shows a lucid and... courageous vigor, because it had to be said that the flower of the Proustian world doesn't smell very good (...).) As for your first page, I've never read anything better from your pen (...) As for my Goethe, I was very unhappy when I read it translated... Then he says he has received a very interesting medical journal from Dr. Mac Auliffe, and asks for the address where he can send his thanks. At the end of the letter, he gives some news about his book. Translator of Romain Rolland, Pierre Abraham (1892-1974) began his career as a critic for newspapers and magazines. He contributed to the magazine Europe from its inception, and published several essays of noteworthy novelty and originality. Attracted by collective work, he led a research team at the Encyclopédie française in 1935. He went on to edit the journal Europe from 1949 to 1974.
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