Maîtres Isabelle GOXE & Laurent BELAÏSCH
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JALOUX (Edmond), French writer and literary critic (1878–194…
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24
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JALOUX (Edmond), French writer and literary critic (1878–194…
See original version (French)
Estimate €250 - €300
Voluntary lot
Description
JALOUX (Edmond), French writer and literary critic (1878–1949). Signed autograph manuscript entitled ‘Elémir Bourges et la Nef’. 12 pp. folio. A very fine analysis of the work ‘La Nef’ by the French writer Elémir Bourges. It presents the writer’s body of work as a whole, before delving deeper into his study of this particular work: ‘La Revue Hebdomadaire has the exceptional privilege of offering its readers one of the finest and most beautiful works of our literature: *La Nef*, by Elémir Bourges. Or rather, the second part of this book, for the first part was published in 1904, and since then, its author has worked tirelessly on this one, which completes and brings to a close his philosophical epic. But before discussing it at greater length, we would like to say a few words about its author, whose painstaking reserve has kept him at a distance from the literary world and who, whilst he truly possesses glory in the proud and absolute sense of the word, has not yet attained the full renown that his friends would have wished for him...’.
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