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

• Rare dedicated edition of Roger Martin du Gard (Nobel Prize for Literature in 1937) on his emblematic Novel, which some call a forgotten masterpiece.

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

• "Jean Barois participates in the aesthetic effervescence that characterizes 1913, by multiplying formal experiments, such as hybrid composition, the art of collage, the dialogue regime, documentary aesthetics, typographic games and the cut style.

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

"Written in a style reminiscent of the cinema, with many dialogues, of an astonishing modernism, "Jean Barois" is one of the most beautiful French novels of the beginning of the 20th century. It is the novel of human consciousness, stuck between the Enlightenment (those that come to us from the 18th century) and tradition (represented by the Church), together with a severe criticism of a certain modernism and an analysis of the conflicts between faith and reason."

(https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01430282)

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State

Very nice work with slight wear from use

• slight rubbing on edges and corners

• Fresh interior but a little yellowed