Roger Martin du Gard - Jean Barois - well bound With shipment to Varennes 1933

• Rare signed edition by Roger Martin du Gard (1937 Nobel Prize in Literature) of his iconic novel, which some consider a forgotten masterpiece.

From the library of the journalist and writer from the Bourbonnais region, Jean-Charles Varennes, a former resistance fighter.

• "Jean Barois participates in the aesthetic effervescence that characterized 1913 by multiplying formal experiments, such as hybrid composition, the art of collage, the dialogic structure, documentary aesthetics, typographic games, and a clipped style.

A melancholic chronicle of intellectual modernism, taking stock of the Dreyfus affair, and questioning the power of religious ties, it is also a novel of the unhappy consciousness, meditating on lost identity and impossible responsibility."

"Written in a style that evokes cinema, with numerous dialogues and astonishing modernism, 'Jean Barois' is one of the finest French novels of the early 20th century. It is the novel of human consciousness, caught between the Enlightenment (that which comes to us from the 18th century) and tradition (represented by the Church), as well as a severe critique of a certain modernism and an analysis of the conflicts between faith and reason."

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Condition

Very beautiful work with slight wear from use

• light rubbing on edges and corners

• Interior fresh but slightly yellowed