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FIRST EDITION OF THE VERY FIRST LITERARY PORTRAIT the author of Grand Meaulnes.
ONE OF THE FIRST 2 COPIES ON JAPONfollowed by 28 copies on Arches and 70 copies on pur-fil.
"From reality to dreams, in other words from this flat ordinary life to the vision of Le Grand Meaulnes, this writer, who can be described as unexpected because he resembles no other, had grown up in a world apart, exceptional and very much his own. And then suddenly, at the beginning of the terrible tragedy of the war, he had regained contact with the real world; but, almost immediately, it had been to escape again into who knows what shadow and faraway place."
Author of the first critical work on Octave Mirbeau, published in 1903 in the collection Today's celebritiesEdmond Pilon quickly excelled in the genre, mixing anecdote and romance, lyricism and documentation, in his literary and artistic portraits, Chardin, Tender and pathetic portraits, French and literary figures, marked a generation of readers.
A very rare print.