PIERRE BONCOMPAIN - ANDRE GIDE

Boncompain, Pierre - Gide, André. Les Nourritures Terrestres. Mit 30 (davon 1 signierten und 10 farbigen) Original-Lithographien von P. Boncompain. Paris, Michele Trinckvel, 1990. [1] w. Bl., 209 S., [2] Bll. Lose Bogen in bedrucktem Original-Umschlag, eingelegt in illustrierter Original-Leinwand-Kassette. - Eines von 150 nummierten Exemplaren auf Grand Vélin d'Arches (Gesamtauflage 355). Im Impressum vom Künstler signiert. - Einseitig beschnitten. - "Les Nourritures terrestres (Fruits of the Earth, 1897)... was published at the authors own expense. It is the most extreme and meticulous example of Gides early predilection for poetic prose. But it was also a breakthrough for Gide. Here he gave up irony and indirection for a positive celebration of the senses, of self- indulgence in beauty. He stopped putting off temptation, or being ashamed of it, and celebrated its savor, its liberating qualities, no longer in a tone of lamentation but with a hymn-like fervor. It is easy to see how such exaltation disconcerted the public and the critics, who - for the moment at least, a moment that was to extend beyond World War I - remained unimpressed. Gide's expressions did not fit into any of the accepted conventions, yet did not lash out against them. Apart from Nietzsche, who certainly had some influence on Gide, there were few precedents for a didactic work of so personal and lyrical a nature." (Nobel Prize Library 105-114). - Aussen leicht fleckig; innen frisches und sauberes Exemplar.