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Jules BARBEY D'AUREVILLY Les diaboliques

Jules BARBEY D'AUREVILLY

Les diaboliques

E. Dentu, Paris 1874, 11x18cm, 354pp., relié.


First edition for which it was not drawn from great papers.
Binding half red sheepskin contemporary. Back to false nerves adorned with 5 florets. title label of red sheepskin. Upper hat rubbed and skinned. A little lack in the upper bit in the lead. Friction to the nerves, bits and curbs.
Blue stamp number M on the subtitle.
Some scattered foxinges without gravity, especially on the preface.
Barbey d'Aurevilly, who risks a lawsuit for immorality, withdraws the book of the sale, and the parquet floor of Paris seizes 450 copies still in manufacture. Sulphurous work, The Diabolical question evil (love, adultery, perversion and murder) in a bourgeois society and Christian. The work will seem all the more unhealthy as it places women at the center of the news where masks, concealment and deception reign. The book will become an emblem of this decadent literature where the fascination for evil reigns supreme, with Huysman, Octave Mirbeau ...

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