In the Fresh Heart of the Forest - Camille Lemonnier - rel. Mosaic morocco 1922

• Camille Lemonnier (Le Zola Belge) the first and last of the Belgian writers

decadent realist, virtuoso of style, writer of peri-urbanity, Bible proofreader,

hallucinated explorer of the intimate, painter of the Belgian people.

By Stefan Zweig

With the abundance of colors of his august ancestor Rubens, whose sensuality

cheerful made the smallest thing a perpetual feast and enjoyed life as

of an eternal novelty, Camille Lemonnier knew how to paint in prodigal all vitality,

all ardor, all abundance.

At Fresh Heart of the Forest (poetic reverie)

it is a modern transposition of Longus' masterpiece. Daphnis and Chloe

are no longer young Greeks, spelling the love song among the orange trees

and oleanders. They are vagabonds, beggars on the highway.

Daphnis is named Petit Vieux and Chloé Frilette. Where do they come from ? We do not know. Where are they going ?

They don't know it themselves. Ten-year-old children

They are hungry and seek food in the grim suburbs of an industrial city.

In the Dictionary of Works, Ralph Heyndels appreciate the poetry of

the original astonishment that makes Au coeur frais de la forêt "a captivating book,

bewitching and of a strong and singular beauty »

Illuminating in a symbolic way the philosophical convictions of Camille

Lemonnier, at the turn of the century.

The lyrical celebration of nature, the visceral cult of life in

all its manifestations, a pantheism which replaces Christianity but

keep a pinch of evangelical wisdom, the belief in the resumption of life

after death, the virtues of solitude and self-deepening but

culminating in the duty to go ahead through the world, towards men for

get out of misery with.

http://journallecteur.blogspot.com/2015/09/au-cur-frais-de-la-foret-camille.html

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http://www.arllfb.be/ebibliotheque/communications/dumont110502.pdf

State

Very nice work with slight wear from use

• slight rubbing to the caps
• small top tear of the 2nd cover

• 1st dish slightly veiled

• Fresh interior