Description

This collection of 13 short stories was published on the original date (12th edition on the cover). Copy on current paper.

AUTOGRAPH SIGNED LETTER TO MARGUERITE AUDOUX: 

To Marguerite Audoux,
in loving tribute
tales without literature
H Poulaille

A leading figure and pioneering theoretician of proletarian literature, Henry Poulaille defended a literature composed of "by and for the people"This is the title of part 3 of his manifesto. New age of literature (1930), in which he devoted several pages to Marguerite Audoux (p. 255-258). The two writers are said to have met in 1936 (Archives Marguerite Audoux).

As well as managing the press department at Bernard Grasset, with whom he published several novels, Poulaille edited the Valois collection of proletarian works "Les romans du Nouvel âge" and the review New literary age, renamed New age. He also contributed to a number of "proletarian pages" magazines, in which he promoted authors from "the people".

In 1935, Poulaille helped set up the Musées du soir, a literary circle, library and exhibition hall for workers and employees in the Paris region.

This book is part of the catalogue devoted to Marguerite Audoux that we have just published online, and is available on our website.