The Mirror of Letters - Fernand Vandérem EO 1919 1/20 Sent to Tristan Bernard

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• Rare bibliophilic work With Bel Envoi Autograph to Tristan Bernard, work he had bound

"The Director of Detaille's Palace"

We recall that Tristan Bernard lived at 9 rue Edouard Detaille (1893-1928), and that his wife Suzanne

held a salon there, regularly receiving Sarah Bernhardt or Marcel Proust (friend of Fernand)

With more than fifty comedies, twenty-five novels and a thousand witticisms, he has made three generations laugh.

It's the Parisian spirit, with a hint of Jewish humor. “Not only am I Jewish, but my means allow me not to be Jewish,” says the best-selling author.

• Fernand Vandérem (1864-1939) novelist, playwright and columnist

Famous literary critic of the beginning of the 20th century (he was also editor-in-chief of the bibliophile bulletin), having drawn the wrath of certain novelists (René Boylesve, Marcel Boulenger, etc.), he had, according to Denis Pernot, a certain authority in the literary life of the 1920s (the textbook dispute)

In the journal Action, Cahiers de Philosophie et d'Art, n°3, Extraits, Paris, April 1920

Renée Dunan said: These are reasons for me to appreciate this collection of articles published in the Revue de Paris. I noted excellent things about Duhamel, Henry Bataille, Rostand and the Cubists. I observed with sympathy that M. Vanderem had noticed Baudelaire's critical style.

• He is notably a literary critic for the Revue de Paris and the Revue de France: the eight series of the Mirror of Letters, published from 1919 to 1929 by Flammarion take up the articles

He tries to draw up a panorama of contemporary literature, analyzing the novels and poems resulting from the war, studying the vogue of the adventure novel or the decline of regular verse. He is interested in "cubist" poets, shows sympathy for Dadaism, praises Salmon and Mac Orlan, Pierre Benoit and Paul Reboux.

• From August 15 to October 15, 1922, Vanderem will denounce in the Revue de France the narrowness of judgment of school textbooks, which do not give great poets like Baudelaire the place they deserve, by their inability to attach them to schools. This criticism had a great echo, and resulted in a petition published in L'Intransigeant.

Vanderem demanded at the same time the creation of a Ministry of Letters, the responsibility of which would fall to a writer, so that the Ministry of Public Instruction no longer had “the upper hand” over literary life.

https://www.cairn.info/revue-romantisme-2009-1-page-85.htm

Editions Ernest Flammarion

1919

Original Autographed Edition

Format 14*19cm 277p

here first series of his literary chronicles

head draw

One of 20 copies on Holland Paper

Initialed by the publisher

 Without illustration

Beautiful Half Morroquin Binding With Corners

laminated on the title page the bookbinder's note to Mr Tristan Bernard

Preserved covers

Golden slice of head

State

Very nice work with slight wear from use

• slight rubbing on the nerves
• slight edge friction on the 1st bit

• slight edge rubbing

• Fresh interior
• some yellowed margins