Beschreibung:

Paz, Octavio CORRESPONDENCE TO HIS FRENCH TRANSLATOR AND FRIEND MONIQUE FONG. 1961-1977 28 letters signed "Octavio Paz", then "Octavio" including 11 autograph letters, 16 typescript letters with autograph notes and 1 telegram, 43 pages (size varies), in Spanish (one letter in French, one in English). With: Octavio Paz. Apariencia desnuda. La Obra de Marcel Duchamp Mexico, Bibioteca Era, 1973. Incribed by the author "A Monique, con mi gratitud a la traductora y mi antigua, fiel amistad. Octavio. Cambridge, Mass, 12 de Diciembre 1976." The copy is corrected and annotated by this author for a French translation, comprising about 80 autograph corrections by Paz. With: Octavio Paz, “The Centurions of Santiago” (28 September 1973), Original English typescript, 7 pages, with handwritten corrections and additions in the hand of Octavio Paz (black ink) and Fong (purple ink). The text, published in Descent, was written on the occasion of General Augusto Pinochet’s coup d’état in Chile + Carbon copy of final version. With: Autograph and typescript letters to Monique Fong signed Robert Lebel (1), Marie-Jo Paz (1 - about a meeting between Octavio and Borges in Austin, Texas), Juan García de Oteyca (1), carbon copy of a letter of Octavio Pax to the Cultural Program of the XIX Olympics held in Mexico, carbon of the poem "Mexico: Olimpíada de 1968," carbon copy of Monique Fong's translation and other ephemera.