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FIRST EDITION of this mythical story of Île-Maurice, one of the poet's major works.
UNIQUE EDITION OF 400 NUMBERED COPIES.

SIGNED AUTOGRAPH CONSIGNMENT to the writer, member of the Grand Jeu, André Rolland de Renéville (1903-1962) :

"To Rolland de Rénéville,
Paris.
This gospel of stone
Mr De Chazal,
33/02/51
Mauritius."

The idea for this myth came to Malcolm de Chazal during a conversation with the poet Edward Hart, who said that the summit of Pieter Both had been "ttarnished by the hand of man".. "Hart spoke as was his wont, at length and with great impact. The fading day threw a mauve mist over the distant landscape. And the stone behemoths gleamed in this gauze like unreal enamels. Evening came softly, in the peace of an overly mild summer. Suddenly, as at the H-hour, destiny burst from the mouth of Robert Edward Hart." Later, in Souillac, during a lunch in a seaside camp next to Hart's famous Nave, Chazal wanted to go for a swim in a "big hole". rock-lined garden opposite Telfair. It was there, under the hundred-year-old banyan trees, that the name Petrusmok was whispered to him. From then on, he says, "the Myth haunted me, seized me, possessed me. [...] Petrusmok was written in six months according to the whims of my hikes in the mountains"..

How to become a genius,  Malcom de Chazal, Vizavi Publishing, 2006 .