Description

FIRST EDITION.
ONE OF THE FIRST 12 COPIES ON MONTVAL. Followed by 18 copies on Rives vellum, 25 copies on vergé, and 1100 copies on esparto.
This famous anti-existentialist pamphlet, in which Jacques Laurent claims to denounce a continuity between Paul Bourget and Jean-Paul Sartre, appeared in February 1951 in the review of The Round Table, then the same year in a volume published by Grasset in the "Cahiers irréguliers" collection.

Just as, in Gallo-Roman times, the natives willingly entrusted the future defence of their city to its first attacker, Sartre was entrusted with the pennant of the old young review. We had to try to ignore the fact that Bourget was being given the keys through him.

A good uncut copy.