KESSEL (Joseph). Le Repos de l'équipage. Complete autograph manuscript, in 4 chapters, signed and dated in fine "Paris, 20 June 1934". 27 numbered recto ff. (13.5 x 21 cm). Complete first draft manuscript, with erasures and additions; very compact and without margins. Divided into 5 episodes (distinct from the chapters numbered by Kessel), it was used for publication in the weekly Gringoire: - 8 June (ff. 1 to 6, up to the first 6 lines: "...insulting") - 15 June (from line 6 to 10) - 22 June 1934 (from f. 11 to f. 16, the first 2 thirds: "... disintegration") - 29 June 1934 (from f. 16, last third, to f. 21, 3 quarters: "...without understanding.") - 6 July 1934 (from f. 21, last quarter, to f. 27). Le Repos de l'équipage is a story bringing together 4 new episodes from L'Équipage, Kessel's first major novel (Gallimard, 1923); the original edition was published by Gallimard in 1935. These new episodes were composed for the film adaptation of the novel, directed by Anatole Litvak in 1935. They were reworked and integrated into the novel L'Équipage in 1964. The latest version of 1964 cuts out the first chapter of Le Repos de l'équipage (which appeared in Gringoire on 8 June and then at the end (in 2 columns) on 15 June 1934; the only chapter published in La Pléiade (I, p. 143), it also corresponds to pages 7 to 40 of the original 1935 edition). Small stains. Trace of rusty paperclip, with small tears to the first and last leaves reaching a few letters.