A Vau-L'eau
HUYSMANS (Joris-Karl) illustrated by Am. LYNEN
Bruxelles - Kistemaeckers, Édition de bibliophile - 1882
- Bookbinder : Alfred FAREZ
- Format : In-16.
- Number of volumes : 1 volume.
- Binding : Bound.
- Collation : 144 pp.
- Language : Français
Half-maroquin havana wedge binding. Smooth spine with golden date on the heel. Top edge gilt. Original paper covers and spine bound in. Binding signed Alfred FAREZ.
ORIGINAL EDITION adorned with a portrait-frontispiece engraved with etching of LYNEN One of the 1000 copies on Holland, only edition with 10 Japan.
À vau-l'eau paints a portrait of Jean Folantin, a bachelor and office employee, a melancholic man who never reaches the grandeur of his romantic elders.This work is part of the movement of the" livre sur rien " initiated by Flaubert with[nbsp]L'Éducation sentimentale and poses the following paradox : how to write a novel when you empty it of its content ?
Very good condition.
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