Sunday, March 20, 2016

François Truffaut to Luc Moullet

“Neither in its tone nor its form nor its content is your article on Les Hussards right for Cahiers, even though it’s not-uninteresting… That’s why your joining Cahiers poses the moral problems that you can image; I’m sure we’ll come to trust you, but you will understand why we are wary...

 “It was so very friendly and revealed a Moullet I had not suspected, full of humour, relaxed and realistic…. Yes, I admit it, we were a little scared of you. First because you are as (sincerely and violently) caustic as we used to be and there’s something shocking about this eternal recurrence at Cahiers, this eternally recurring sarcasm, and it also seemed to us that you tended to go too far in both directions (adulation and loathing)...

(Francois Truffaut: Correspondence, Pg. 85, 95)

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