Nerte. Nouvelle provençale.

Réf. 42411

Vendu

Format : In-12.
Number of volumes : 1 volume.
Binding : Bound.
Collation : 381 pp.

Binding brown half-chagrin. Spine with raised bands with golden date on the heel. Top edge gilt. Cover kept with a handwritten entry on the front cover. With the French translation next to it.

ORIGINAL EDITION of this classic Provençal literature Copy enriched with an autograph letter from the author to the poet Paul Redonnet.

"[nbsp]Provençal poem by Frédéric Mistral (1830-1914), published with the French translation in 1884, the year of the fourth centenary of the reunion of Provence with France. The action takes place in the 15th century[...]. Composed in full expansion of the félibre movement and when Mistral's popularity was already considerable, this poem strives to revive some of the splendours of ancient Provence, according to the way troubadours or epic storytellers loved it... [...] This work has its place in a selection of Provençal letters ". (Dictionary of Works, IV, 729).

In 1904, this epic poem was awarded the Vitet Prize of the Académie Française.

Nice copy.