Max JACOB. L.A.S., Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire March 11, 1924, to - Lot 461

Max JACOB. L.A.S., Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire March 11, 1924, to Jacques Rivière; 2pages small in-4 (binder holes). He has no news to report, working "like a slave" on his Tableau de la Bourgeoisie, from which he extracts a passage for the N.R.F.: "I'm sending you this 'pseudo-dictionary of bourgeois tastes and dislikes'. I'm not at all sure of the quality of what I'm writing", and he counts on Rivière's severity. "This 200-page picture of the Bourgeoisie is a formidable undertaking in my opinion. I found a very serious classification of French families: it seems to me an 'invention'. I wonder if the work gives my colleagues as much trouble as it gives me. If so, I pity them: it would be better to be a carpenter"...