André Gide.

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André Gide.
L'Immoraliste. Paris, Mercure de France, 1902. In-12: black half-maroquin with corners, spine with pinched edges, untrimmed, gilt head, cover and spine preserved (Alix). First edition: unique edition of 300 copies on Arches laid paper. "Gide's previous success, Les Nourritures terrestres, had more influence on youth, but it is vague and syrupy. Here the destructive tendencies implicit in the pagan obsession with the body, the latent homosexuality that the desert brings out, are foreshadowing aspects of his own life, so profoundly altered by his encounter with Wilde and Douglas" (Cyril Connolly, One Hundred Key Books of Modern Literature, #13). Precious autograph letter signed: to Corporal Paul Valéry in memory of my 28 days his friend André Gide Superb provenance reuniting two of the most gifted and intelligent writers of their generation who remained closely linked for more than fifty years, "however different we were from each other", confessed Gide. (Bibliothèque nationale, En français dans le texte, no. 330.)
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