Author Quoted | Francois Rene Chateaubriand |
Title Quoted | Vie de Rance |
Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1966/10/29 |
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Quotation | I am reading Chateaubriand's Vie de Rance for the first time. It is an extraordinary piece of writing, constantly on the edge of surrealist poetry. I wonder if Jean Cocteau had ever read it. He would have been delighted with it. |
Journal | The Courage for Truth: Letters of Thomas Merton to Writers.; Selected and edited by Christine M. Bochen. / New York : Farrar Straus Giroux. 1993, p. 48 |
Link to Merton's Copy |
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