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THE ART OF THE MISSING POSTSCRIPT: SOME UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS OF JOSEPH JOUBERT The aim of the following remarks is to introduce the text of a letter and six fragments enclosed with it, sent by the moralist and aesthetician, Joseph Joubert (1754-1824), best known for the pensees of his private journal,1 to an aristocratic friend, Mme de Guitaud,~ subsequent to a stay he made at the Chateau d'Epoisses in the autumn of 1807, in the wake of his inability to attend her birthday celebrations to which he had been invited. They have been copied directly from manuscripts to be found in the Archives de Guitaud-' which were incompletely published by the author's nephew by marriage, Paul de Raynal, in 1842. Their importance stems largely from a long postscript appended to the covering letter which throws fresh light on Joubert's methods of composition and his conception of epistolary art. Out of the six fragments that followed, Paul de Raynal created a continu ous letter. Dating it October 1807 he began with N°li I, and then printed N°lI and N°V. Numbers I, IV, and VI were completely suppressed, Raynal prefer ring to ignore Joubert's constant search for the intelligent reader who would
Nottingham French Studies – Edinburgh University Press
Published: Jan 1, 1985
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