Lot 144
Collection of Autograph Letters by Nathalie Sarraute - France, 1969-1994
Eight autograph letters, signed by Nathalie Sarraute (1900-1999), a Jewish-French author, born in Russia. Most of the letters, or all of them, were sent to Avraham (Bouma) Yas'ur and his wife Hava, members of Kibbutz Merhavia. France, ca. 1969-1994 (most of the letters were sent from Paris in the 1970s). English and French.
Personal letters, in which Sarraute writes, among other things, about her opinions concerning life in the Kibbutz (it is possible that she met the couple to whom the letters were addressed when she visited Kibbutz Merhavia in the late 1960s), and about Israel in general. Her interest in Israeli politics and her sympathy toward Israel are obvious. In one of the letters she describes the process of writing a pro-Israeli article for the paper l'Observateur. In another letter, from December 1973, shortly after the Yom Kippur War, Sarraute expresses her objection to the idea that Israel will have to return territories. Sarraut also refers in her letters to French politics, in particular the French left wing, with relation to Israel, and to anti-Semitism in France.
On the reverse of one letter appears a letter handwritten by her husband, Raymond Sarraut.
Eight letters (about 18 handwritten pages), size varies. Overall good condition.
