Henri TROYAT (1911-2007). 2 autograph manuscripts including one signed; 1 page and a half in-4 and 1 page and a quarter in-4. One joins the signed typescript with autogr. corrections of his preface to Manon Lescaut, [Fayard, 1947]. On cinema, comparable to the American West, "homeland of hope": the adversaries here are the traditionalist spectators and the capitalists... Balzac: "To react against the drying, sterilizing action of intellectualism in art, [...] to plunge back into the reading of Balzac [...], he gives us a marvelous lesson of naivety"....