moravagine par Blaise Cendrars (Fr.)

Paris. Club des Amis du Livre. First ed. of 16,060. Hardcover with pictorial cover. Book Condition: Near Fine, only slight tanning to pages over time. Cover condition: Near Fine, vivid illustration but discoloration to edges over time. 285pp. (ill. in colour & b/w).Foreward by Claude Roy.Afterward by Blaise Cenrars.Ill. by Pierre Chaplet.Photos par les collections photographiques personnelles de Blaise Cendrars. This volume is a special first edition of the novel that took Blaise Cendrars nearly a decade to publish, and in his lifetime, claimed was never complete. “Moravagine,” “mort a vagine,” a kind of death in life and life in death, is the textual and thematic crux of Cendrars unfinished work, through which a kind of exorcism is attempted (and extended) to in some ways free the writer from the writing itself.[English title: "Moravagine"]Text in French.