BRISCADIEU BORDEAUX
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MIRBEAU (Octave) The Twenty-One Days of a Neurasthenic. Twen…
See original version (French)
299
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MIRBEAU (Octave) The Twenty-One Days of a Neurasthenic. Twen…
See original version (French)
Estimate €100 - €150
Voluntary lot
Description
MIRBEAU (Octave)
The Twenty-One Days of a Neurasthenic. Twenty-ninth thousand. Paris, Fasquelle, ‘Bibliothèque Charpentier’, 1902.
In-8. Autograph copy signed by the author to Jean Tinot.
Contemporary red morocco, decorated ribbed spine, slight damage to the top cap, central panel of red moiré with floral decoration on the covers, double gilt lace edging, slight scuffing, publisher’s dust jacket retained, gilt head.
The author takes his bitterness for a stroll through the Pyrenees and sets the tone: “So, I am travelling, which bores me immensely, and I am travelling through the Pyrenees, which transforms the general boredom I feel at travelling into a particular form of torture. What I reproach the Pyrenees for most is that they are mountains… Yet the mountains, whose immense and fierce poetry I sense as well as anyone else, symbolise for me all the incurable sadness, the dark despondency, the suffocating and deadly atmosphere that the universe can contain... I admire their grandiose forms and their shifting light… But it is the very essence of all this that terrifies me… It seems to me that the landscapes of death must be mountains upon mountains, like those I have right here before my eyes as I write. Perhaps that is why so many people love them.” These few lines show that we are in the presence of literature of the highest quality.
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