Écrivains et artistes

Réf. 55418

Vendu

Paris - Édition du Capitole - 1929.

Format : In-12.
Number of volumes : 8 tomes
Binding : Paperback.
Collation : Tome 1: 253 pp. Tome 2: 243 pp. Tome 3: 253 pp. Tome 4: 251 pp. Tome 5: 243 pp. Tome 6: 248 pp Tome 7: 241 pp. Tome 8: 241 pp.

Filled printed soft cover. Uncut copies. Beautifully fresh paper. The backs are a little faded and browned. Many black and white illustrations out of text.

The eight volumes of Léon Daudet's series Écrivains et Artistes are especially valid for the many judgments that the authors, dead, alive or exhausted, have inspired in the author: Shakespeare, Rabelais, Molière, Dostoïevski, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Maupassant, Zola, Proust, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kessel, Georges Bernanos, Paul Valéry, Balzac,Victor Hugo, Oscar Wilde,Alexandre Dumas, Madame de Sévigné and many others. The polemist had his tenacious hates and safe haven values. He hated "automatic" literature and cherished, lucid, talent, true stars, all those whose books generate a kind of sentimental hallucination. To be able to write is to be able to read: Daudet says it, Daudet proves it.

LIMITED ORIGINAL EDITION: 4,340 numbered copies on Alfa paper. This is one of the numbered copies.

In good condition.