32 autograph letters to Constant Bourquin.
Twenties of the twentieth century.
In total 75 pages in 12mo, 135x105mm, and 8vo, 210x135 mm. All signed. Two letters from his wife joined the lot.
Important source for the knowledge of "Bovarism", illustrated in this extensive correspondence with the philosopher Constant Bourquin. At the heart of Gaultier's reflection is the theory of bovarism. Gaultier takes up the question posed by Plato on the limit between true and false, between reality and illusion, and comes to the conclusion that, since knowledge is always relative, every being knows itself different from what it is: not as it is objectively, but as he appears in relation to the subject. Man therefore has a distorted image of himself; on the other hand this allows him to escape from reality and consequently to accept his destiny. Gaultier called his philosophy Bovarism (1911), because he found it perfectly applied in Gustave Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary.