Description

ORIGINAL FRENCH EDITION.

Translated from the English by Philippe Neel.

ONE OF 990 EXEMPLIES ON LAFUMA-NAVARRE VELIN IN IN-18 FORMAT, this being one of 10 ex-commerce copies.

Superb autograph letter from the translator to the Romanian writer Panait Istrati:

 Panaït Istrati
A frantic and tender heart
this tale of a big heart
and a silent tenderness
Ph. Neel

A vagabond novelist nicknamed the "Balkan Gorki" by Romain Rolland, Panaït Istrati was, like Conrad, an uprooted writer who wrote most of his work in French. Alain Dugrand recently devoted a study to him, Panaït Istrati: Vagabond, magician, irregular, writer, as part of a day on "Les Conrad français" organised by the Société Jean Malaquais.

Rare provenance.