Lucrèce, Judith and Holopherne : manuscript, 1930 Dec.

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Lucrèce, Judith and Holopherne : manuscript, 1930 Dec.

Autograph manuscript, signed, intended for but never published in an erotic literary collection edited by Georges Bataille; later revised for a general audience and published as the central chapter of L'age d'homme (1939). Also contains a three-page signed autograph manuscript, dated St.-Hilaire, 27 May 1967, explaining the work's literary development.

35 leaves, bound ; 28 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7797205

Houghton Library

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