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Robert ANTELME

L'espèce humaine

La cité universelle, Paris 1947, 14,5x19,5cm, broché.

ANTELME Robert
L'Espèce humaine [The Human Race]
La Cité universelle, Paris 1947, 14,5 x 19,5 cm, original wrappers
First edition for which no grand papier (deluxe) copies were printed, with original wrappers.
"There are not several human races, there is one human race. It's because we're men like them that the SS will finally prove powerless before us."
This fundamental work on the experience of the Nazi camps was the third and last publication of the short-lived publishing house founded by Marguerite Duras and Robert Antelme, her husband from 1940 to 1946.
The work went unnoticed when it was first published and distributed among a selected few; only a few copies were sold. It was put on sale again the following year with a new cover by Robert Marin, but suffered from the competition from a number of other texts on the subject that were released immediately after the war. Nonetheless, as F. Lebelley relates: "At a time when there was an abundance of such tales, the especial power of this book, which is of the utmost sobriety, had the unsettling effect of a founding text. It is the work of a writer who, as Duras recognized, charted 'the high seas of literature.' Robert Antelme never wrote another. Despite the praise and honors he received, L'Espèce humaine remained his life's work." (in Duras, ou le Poids d'une plume)
Thanks to the intervention of Albert Camus, the book was republished ten years later, in 1957, by Gallimard. This time it was more widely read.
It gained a place in literary history as one of the most important texts confronting what was a painful but necessary reflection on the concentration camps and the human condition. After Antelme, writers such as his friend Jorge Semprun were able to begin a new approach to the impossibility of writing about the camps.
In 1947 Antelme announced in his foreword, "During the days that followed our return, we were all, I think, seized by a veritable delirium. We wished to speak, to be heard at last. And yet, it was impossible. We had hardly begun to speak and we were choking. And then, even to us, what we had to tell would start to seem unimaginable."
A rare and important copy, absent from most national and international libraries, notably the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
$ 3 800

Bibliographie lacunaire des éditions La Cité universelle
Article Robert Antelme In Larousse.fr
Ecrire et philosopher après Auschwitz : Blanchot lecteur de Antelme
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