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RACHILDE. La Tour d'amour. Paris: Société du Mercure de Fran…
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RACHILDE. La Tour d'amour. Paris: Société du Mercure de Fran…
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Lot no. 83
RACHILDE.
La Tour d'amour.
Paris: Société du Mercure de France, [1899]. - In-12, 187 x 117 : (3 ff. first blank), 245 pp. printed cover. Brown morocco, smooth spine decorated with four bold cold fillets and a bold gilt fillet in the centre, havana morocco author's and title-piece, bold gilt fillet in a thin cold fillet framing the inside, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved (period binding).
First edition of one of the most famous novels by Rachilde (1860-1953) and one of the greatest literary texts of the late nineteenth century.
"A "fin de siècle" novelist associated with the literary life of her time, Rachilde gives a moving treatment to the theme of solitude through the sulphurous story of two lighthouse keepers: the old Mathurin Barnabas and the young Jean Maleux who comes to help him. Their lighthouse is the Ar-men lighthouse, the highest lighthouse in Brittany. The surrounding sea, to the rhythm of which the building sways, is never forgotten. Rachilde recounts how Jean Maleux takes possession of this lighthouse, which exudes a demon of solitude with the power to dissolve. In this confined and morbid atmosphere, he discovers the pitiful secret of Barnabas. The old lighthouse keeper worships the women who drown in storms and watches for them so that he can love them. A sort of silent understanding develops between the two men until Barnabas's death" (argument by La République des lettres).
One of 12 numbered copies on Hollande paper (no. 7).
A fine copy in full contemporary or slightly later binding. Enriched with the prospectus for the play based on the novel, performed at the Théâtre Essaïon in Paris from 7 November to 15 December 1984.
Spine slightly faded.
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