Le Prométhée mal enchaîné

Réf. 55853

€ 250.00

GIDE (André) illustrated by Pierre BONNARD

Paris - La Nouvelle Revue française - 1920.

Format : In-8.
Number of volumes : 1 volume.
Binding : Paperback.
Collation : Sans pagination.

Printed soft cover. Back's a bit shaky. Slightly brown leaves. Illustrated with 30 drawings by Pierre BONNARD.

"Badly chained, indeed, since here he is in Paris in 1899, coming from the Caucasus. And then, badly chained, because this lover of men no longer needs chains - he has become in love with his bird; he feeds it, in the hope that this plucked vulture, which resembles a conscience, will become the beautiful eagle of progress, of the ideal, of development. On this diet, Prometheus withers. He would even die if, following a lecture he gave on the theme "To each his own eagle", his friend Damocles had not died from believing too much. On the fresh grave, Prometheus improvises a talk, quite different from the first one, where he praises the fate of Moelibee, the happy man who goes away, naked, to a country happiness. After the funeral, he invites his friends to eat with him the fat eagle whose feathers he has only kept".

PRINTING LIMITED to 765 numbered copies on Lafuma-Navarre white wove paper. This is one of those numbered copies.

Condition okay.