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FIRST EDITION.
ONE OF THE FIRST 188 REIMPOSED COPIES ON PURE THREAD LAID PAPERThis is reserved for bibliophiles of the Nouvelle Revue Française. Printed copy for Henry Thomas.
"Pierre Drieu La Rochelle published (on his own account) his first poems - which are his first texts - in 1917: Interrogation. Then Canteen bottom...in 1920. Largely inspired by his experience of war and his vision of peace, they already present the major themes that his prose work - novels, short stories, essays - will exploit until his death: the need for a balance between dream and action; the restoration of bodies in society; the degeneration of the population; the feeling of being European at the same time if not more than French; the desire for a strong social political regime for Europe and for France; the aesthetic, erotic and mystical value of love, etc.".