Subasta Bidspirit | VIGO JEAN: (1905-1934)

VIGO JEAN: (1905-1934) - VIGO JEAN: (1905-1934) French film director whose work influenced French New Wave cinema of the late 1950s and early 1960s. A rare A.L.S., Jean Vigo , two pages (written to the first and third sides of the bifolium), 8vo, Font-Romeu, 11 th June 1927, to [Pierre de Saint-Prix], ( ‘Cher ami’ ), in French. Vigo announces ‘Ce doit etre une loi facile a verifier, a savoir que ”toute production croit eu raison directe de l'altitude” O - Oxygene!’ (Translation: ‘It must be an easy law to verify, namely that “all production increases directly due to altitude” O – Oxygen! Font-Romeu: 1800 metres!’ ) and continues ‘Et puis, et puis, j'y songe vous avez sur place votre editeur Claude Aveline, qui m'avouait un jour n'avoir jamais taut travaille qu'ici son edition de ”Deux enfants” m'avait beaucoup plu quand il me fut’ (Translation: ‘And then, and then, I think about it, you have your publisher Claude Aveline on site, who admitted to me one day that he had never worked as much as here, his edition of “Deux enfants” had pleased me a lot when it was presented to me’ ), further writing ‘Claude Aveline est un etre d'un commerce tres, tres agreable - et son aimable complaisance, ses prevenances vous confondent. La camarade Fernand lui reprocherait peut-etre de n'etre point communiste; mais si tout le monde adherait au Parti qui aurions nous a faire fusiller….’ (Translation: ‘Claude Aveline is a very, very pleasant person – and his amiable complaisance, his attentions confuse you. Comrade Fernand would perhaps reproach him for not being a communist; but if everyone joined the Party then we would have to be shot…..’ ). In concluding Vigo asks when his friend will definitely arrive, ‘Ce serait pour moi une grande joie, que notre bon Fernand ne refuserait pas de partager......car il y viendra aussi!’ (Translation: ‘It would be a great joy for me, which our good Fernand would not refuse to share….because he will come there too!’ ). Autograph letters of Vigo are rare as a result of his untimely death at the age of 29. About EX Pierre de Saint-Prix (1901-1994) French journalist, writer and resistance fighter.