Chapter eighteen: a deflating balloon

“I was his long-suffering, uninterruptedly betrayed wife”: HS, interview, September 9, 2007.

“certainly one of the best”: ST to HS, “Wednesday night April 13 [1955],” AAA.

“How horrible the mud splashes”: ST to HS, “Tuesday morning,” (April 1955), AAA. His datebook for 1955, YCAL, Box 3, mentions one meeting with Hayter.

“small fry abstracts”: ST to HS, “April 23, Sat. Nite” (1955), AAA.

Making the selection created: ST, diary, May 27, 1955, YCAL, Box 3. Eventually the book contained approximately 200 drawings.

While choosing them and working: ST to HS, “Thursday morning” (April 1955), AAA.

At the same time, Robert Delpire: “Labyrinthe,” a prefiguration of the title given by ST to his 1960 book, The Labyrinth.

“There may be trouble here”: ST to HS, “April 20 evening” (1955), AAA.

“I don’t want to be shown”: ST to HS, “Tuesday Morning,” (mid-April 1955), AAA.

Moritz added to Saul’s confusion: Moritz Steinberg to ST, Nice, January 26, 1955, Romanian letters, YCAL, Box 8.

Brooding over the conflicting claims: ST mentions dining with Giacometti on several occasions in the AAA correspondence; HS returned to this friendship many times throughout the 2007 interviews.

“never one of those artists’ wives”: HS, interview, 2007.

“What about you?”: ST to HS, April 25, 1955, AAA.

Hedda was fascinated by all the existentialists: HS, telephone conversation, 2007.

Wedged into their social program: ST to HS, April 15, 1955, AAA.

“On top of that, they are in Bucharest”: ST to HS, “April 20 evening” (1955), AAA.

“after I troubled the whole Palestine”: ST to HS, April 27, 1955, AAA.

“envied for a moment”: ST to HS, “April 15, 55,” AAA.

Eventually he and Gallimard agreed: ST to HS, “Friday night” (April 1955), AAA.

“kind of anthology”: ST to AB, December 27, 1955, SSF.

“NO Stonington”: ST to HS, “Friday night” (April 1955), AAA.

He spent his last days in Paris: ST, diary, June 26–27, 1955, YCAL, Box 3.

Most of his interaction had been: ST had extensive correspondence with Hélion and Miro, to cite two examples. Their letters are currently uncatalogued and scattered throughout the YCAL boxes.

“Note: alone”: ST, datebook, April 22, 1955, YCAL, Box 3.

“What I learned from Artists”: ST, datebook, n.d. but probably early 1980s, YCAL, Box 38.

Now, on the way home: The most striking representation is his TNY cover of February 5, 1972, in which a figure of a man stands between two signs pointing in opposite directions. He is turned away from the one reading “before” and faces the one reading “after.”

If he read something he liked: Among those to whom he wrote were Lore Siegel, Alice Munro, Veronica Geng, IF, and Donald Barthelme.

“In order to become a fox”: ST, diary, November 25, 1955, YCAL, Box 3. Isaiah Berlin, The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy’s View of History, was originally published by Weidenfeld & Nicholson (London, 1953), and read by ST in that edition.

While in Paris, he did buy: ST to HS, “Friday night” (April 1955), AAA.

Jim Geraghty took him to lunch: ST did not become a member of the Century Association until 1965, proposed by Eric Larrabee and seconded by Sidney Simon. He resigned on October 19, 1975, in a letter to Russell Lynes, saying that he never used the club and saw no purpose in continuing his membership. I am grateful to Dr. Russell Flinchum, the Century archivist, for providing this information.

He was still thinking about the self-knowledge: Information that follows is from ST, datebook, September 9 to December 30, 1955, YCAL, Box 3.

He was discreet: ST, 1955 datebook, YCAL, Box 3; one of the Parisian encounters was “Marielouise L.,” December 1954, Romanian letters, YCAL, Box 8.

There was so much to do: ST, National Diary Page-A-Day, January 3, 1956, YCAL, Box 3.

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