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Henri

Alain-Fournier


Edmond

Pilon


Alain-Fournier

1920130 x 170 mm

ORIGINAL EDITION OF THE VERY FIRST LITERARY PORTRAIT by the author of Le Grand Meaulnes.
ONE OF THE FIRST 2 COPIES ON JAPON

350 €

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Biography Writers who died in the war 14-18 Literature Copy on large paper Top draw only First Edition

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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.

Paris,Edouard's friends,1920.In-12, Softcover130 x 170 mm,43 pp + catalogue.

Good condition.

Bio

Alain-Fournier, Henri

Henri Alain-Fournier

Henri-Alban Fournier

(Born October 3, 1886 in La Chapelle-d'Angillon in the Cher and killed in action on September 22, 1914 in Saint-Remy-la-Calonne)

Henri-Alban Fournier, born in La Chapelle-d'Angillon, spent part of his childhood in Epineuil-le-Fleuriel where his parents were teachers. At the age of twelve, he entered the Lycée Voltaire in Paris, then the Lycée Lakanal in Sceaux. After his military service, he gave up the idea of entering the Ecole Normale, and returned, thanks to Charle Morice, to Paris-Journal and wrote a literary column for several years. He also gives poems, essays and short stories to several magazines. But Alain-Fournier devotes most of his time to writing a novel, the Great Meaulnes. First published in serial form, in La NRF, it was edited in volume, by Emile-Paul Frères, in September 1913. It was an immediate success and just missed out on the Goncourt prize. In 1914, Alain-Fournier begins a new novel, Northern Dove and a play. But the war stops him. He is mobilized on August 2nd and joins the 288th infantry regiment which takes part in the Battle of the Marne. Sent on reconnaissance near Saint-Remy, he crossed the Calonne trench with his company and fell into an ambush. He was killed instantly. He was 28 years old.

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Pilon,Edmond

Edmond Pilon

(Paris: 19 November 1874 - 20 January 1945)

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