Les épées, édition originale
Roger NIMIER
Paris - Gallimard - 1965
- Bookbinder : Alix
- Format : In-8
- Number of volumes : 1 volume
- Binding : Hardcover
- Collation : 282 pp
In bordered slipcase. Bound in framed black morocco, paper boards decorated with horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines. Smooth spine, gilt date at foot. Covers and spine preserved. Binding signed ALIX.
ORIGINAL EDITION of Roger Nimier's first novel, from which no large paper copies were printed, with the "bon achevé d'imprimer" dated August 30, 1948.
A first novel, Les épées is striking for its constant provocation of a France which, at the Liberation, woke up entirely resistant, voluntarily amnesic of a less-than-glorious recent past.
The hero, François Sanders, suffering from an acute form of mal du demi-siècle, joins the militia in spite of himself, after a failed entry into the Resistance. From the height of his contempt, from which nothing escapes - except his sister Claude, whom he loves with an ambiguous love - François goes through the war without glory, aware that he is sinking into a detestable situation.
"I was always isolated because I wasn't interested," he confesses.
Published in 1948, Les Épées spares no one and flays a France won over by Resistantialism. Above all, it marks the entry into literature - through the front door! - of Roger Nimier, a writer who would soon be heralded as the leader of the Hussards literary movement.
Very nice copy
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