[RIVIÈRE] CLAUDEL, Paul (1868-1955)

[RIVIÈRE] CLAUDEL, Paul (1868-1955)

Autograph manuscript signed « Paul Claudel »
Château de Lutaines, June 1925, 17 p. 1/2 in-4°
Some very light stains and spots

Complete manuscript of his preface to Jacques Rivière’s novel: À la trace de Dieu

Paul Claudel, who corresponded extensively with Jacques Rivière at the beginning of his literary life, speaks with emotion of a book that he was the first to discover and which retraces the spiritual journey of its author.
A la trace de Dieu, a diary of captivity, was published by the NRF in 1925, shortly after the death of Jacques Rivière, who had transcribed his experience as a prisoner of war during the 1914-18 war, and shared his philosophy as a Christian.
Claudel deciphers and analyzes Rivière’s vision of a life guided by Providence from the revelation of Christmas 1913 to the war years that imposed on him a severe tête-à-tête with God.