MIRBEAU (Octave) - Lot 299

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MIRBEAU (Octave) - Lot 299
MIRBEAU (Octave) The Twenty-One Days of a Neurasthenic. Twenty-ninth thousand. Paris, Fasquelle, “Bibliothèque Charpentier,” 1902. In-8. Author’s autographed dedication to Jean Tinot. Contemporary red morocco leather, decorated ribbed spine, slight chip at the top cap, central red moiré panel with floral decoration on the covers, double gilt lace borders, slight scuffing, publisher’s dust jacket preserved, gilt title. The author takes his bitterness for a stroll through the Pyrenees and sets the tone: “So, I travel, which bores me immensely, and I travel through the Pyrenees, which transforms the general boredom I feel about traveling into a particular form of torture. What I reproach the Pyrenees for most is that they are mountains... Yet the mountains—whose immense and fierce poetry I feel, no less than anyone else—symbolize for me all the incurable sadness, the dark despair, and the suffocating, deadly atmosphere that the universe can contain... I admire their grandiose forms and their shifting light… But it is the spirit behind all this that terrifies me… It seems to me that the landscapes of death must be mountains and more mountains, like the ones I have right here before my eyes as I write. Perhaps that is why so many people love them.” These few lines show that we are in the presence of literature of the highest quality.
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