Supplément a Don Juan by Colette (Fr.)

Paris. Éditions du Trianon. 1931. First Edition (Supplément no. 15). Exemplaire numéroté sur vergé à la forme de rives, no. 1123. Paperback w. art paper jacket. Book Condition: Near Fine, slight shelf wear. Jacket COndition: Near FIne, slight creasing and signs of shelf wear at spine. 72pp. (ill. in b/w).Cuivres et bois originaux de Gérard Cochet (2 plats, b/w).This small first edition from the famous 20th-century French writer of love, pleasure, and ardor, Colette, is in response and as supplement to literature’s hero of passion, Don Juan. In a way, this address to Don Juan is an address to desire’s legacy as an instrument for literary figures of masculinity. In this light, the piece itself stakes a claim in literature for a feminine voice to respond in her own voice, and to rewrite the conditions for her desire to answer. [English title: "Supplement to Don Juan"]Text in French.