Lot n° 178
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André Gide.
Letters to Angèle 1898-1899. Paris, Mercure de France, 1900.
Small in-12 : black half-maroquin with corners, spine ribbed, untrimmed, gilt head, cover kept, case (Pierre-Lucien Martin).
First edition.
The Letters appeared in the Hermitage in 1898 and 1899: current events provided Gide with the pretexts for the formulation of his aesthetic.
Limited edition of 300 copies on Hollande.
Autograph signed on the false title: to Félix Fénéon
André Gide A prodigious journalist, writer and art critic (he is the inventor of neo-impressionism), of anarchist conviction, Félix Fénéon directed La Revue blanche (1895-1903), to which André Gide collaborated, for nearly ten years. In a famous text, F.F. ou le Critique, Jean Paulhan paid tribute to him: "The happy man! He is at the meeting point of two centuries. He knows how to retain, from the old, Nerval and Lautréamont, Charles Cros and Rimbaud. He introduces to the new Gide, Proust,
Claudel, Valéry, who appear. We have had perhaps only one critic in a hundred years, and that is Félix Fénéon."
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