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Correspondence, papers, manuscripts, documents, photographs, and printed materials. Much of the correspondence concerns his American teaching and lecture engagements, primarily at the University of Louisville. There are also letters from his colleagues in France, including Françoise Van Rossum-Guyon, with a copy of her Introduction to an edition of Balzac's LE PÈRE GORIOT with Butor's critical letter for the publisher. There are critical and biographical manuscripts about Butor, and several printed works, each inscribed with a note by its author.
Selected materials cataloged; remainder arranged.
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Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Michel Butor papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
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Gift of L'eon Roudiez, 1984.
Source of acquisition--Roudiez, Prof. Léon. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1984. Accession number--M-84.
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 04/14/89.
2020-07-20 EAD document created by CCR.
Michel Butor (1926-2016) was a leading philosophical writer in the French "new novel" school and a university professor in the United States as well as in Europe.
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