PAULHAN, Jean.

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PAULHAN, Jean.
Les Fleurs de Tarbes ou la Terreur dans les Lettres. Paris, Gallimard, [1941]. In-8 [222 x 138] of 226 pp, (1) f. : blue half-maroquin with bands, smooth spine, blue and red morocco title, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine kept (Leca). First edition: it is dedicated to André Gide. Important essay published in the NRF in 1936. The reflection of Jean Paulhan (1884-1968) is about the enigma of language and expression. He rehabilitates the "Flowers" of the rhetoric against the terrorism exercised by the literary criticism. To make himself master of these flowers of the language, it is up to the writer to make himself the accomplice of it. A copy of the press service, offered by the author to the dedicatee, bearing an autograph signed letter completing the printed dedication: FOR ANDRÉ GIDE the affection, // and the extreme confidence of // Jean Paulhan The author has also transcribed on the first blank page a passage from Desmarais' Traité du jardin anglais and added an (I) on the false title, indicating his intention to give a sequel to the work, which never appeared. In the turmoil of the dark years, on the date of 1941, the mailing symbolizes the solidarity of the two literary consciences of the NRF. While Gide had opted to withdraw from the magazine, which had fallen into the hands of Drieu La Rochelle, Paulhan entered the underground and the intellectual resistance. However, he maintained an activity within the Gallimard publishing house, playing a complex and perilous game to emancipate himself from the grip of German propaganda. Spine faded and rubbed. In French in the text, BN, 1990, no. 381.
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