Subasta Bidspirit | SIMENON GEORGES: (1903-1989) ”..for twenty

SIMENON GEORGES: (1903-1989) ”..for twenty years I have not received a gift. Except this morning, to mark with a pink stone..” - SIMENON GEORGES: (1903-1989) Belgian Writer. Best known as the creator of the fictional detective Jules Maigret. An excellent autograph letter with very interesting content, A.L.S., ` Simenon´, two pages, 4to, n.p. [Paris], n.d. [May 1935], to André Thérive, on the printed stationery of the George V hotel in Paris, in French. This early letter is an exceptional testimony which explains Simenon´s own reaction after the publication of the first article, written by his correspondent, recognizing him as an authentic writer. Simenon embarked at the end of 1934 to make a world tour, and after 7 months and having visited New York, Panama, Galapagos, Australia, Bombay, etc... he returned to Paris where he finds on his arrival the article he will refer to in this letter, stating in part ` Mon cher confrère et magicien, car vous venez de conjurer un sort. Lorsque j´avais douze ans et que je faisais ma première communion, j´attendais avec fièvre mon premier cadeau dans la vie: la montre en or que ma bonne fée de marraine me donnerait selon la coutume. Ma marraine a remis dix-huit francs à ma mère pour acheter la montre en or. Ma mère n´a pas acheté la montre. Et depuis vingt ans je n´ai pas reçu de cadeau. Sauf ce matin, samedi, à marquer d´une pierre rose puisque, après un voyage de sept mois sans courrier, sans journaux, sans même savoir si mes livres paraitraient, ma première heure parisienne me fait tomber - si l´on peut dire - sur un ami qui le dit: `Avez vous lu...´. Je viens de lire, les larmes aux yeux. Je suis confus, bouleversé.... N´empêche que maintenant, je le sens, ma mauvaise fée de marraine est écrasée et que je recevrai des cadeaux. Aurai-je le plaisir d´en parler avec vous la semaine prochaine? Oui si vous ne vous êtes pas volatilisé comme un lutin. En tout cas je vous dis merci du fond du coeur, car vous m´avez fait digérer pas mal de passé saumâtre.´ (Translation: ” My dear colleague and magician, because you have just conjured a spell. When I was twelve years old and I was making my first communion, I was feverishly awaiting my first gift in life: the gold watch that my good fairy godmother would give me according to custom. My godmother gave my mother eighteen francs to buy the gold watch. My mother did not buy the watch. And for twenty years I have not received a gift. Except this morning, Saturday, to mark with a pink stone since after a seven-month trip without mail, without newspapers, without even knowing if my books would be published, and my first hour in Paris makes me fall - so to speak - on a friend who says: `Have you read...'. I have just read, with tears in my eyes. I am confused, shaken.... Nevertheless, now, I feel it, my bad fairy godmother is crushed and I will receive gifts. Will I have the pleasure of speaking to you about it next week? Yes, if you haven't vanished like an elf. In any case, I thank you from deep in my heart, because you have helped me to digest a lot of the bitter past.”) VG André Thérive (1891-1967) French Journalist. Collaborator of the Revue critique des idées et des livres, and from 1929 to 1942 as literary critic of Temps.