Le Lit la Table
Geneva, Éditions des Trois Collines, 1944.
1 vol. (160 x 225 mm) of 70 p., [1] and 1 f. In wrappers.
First edition, published in Switzerland in early 1944.
One of 3,000 copies on vergé bouffant paper (no. 1241).
One of 3,000 copies on vergé bouffant paper (no. 1241).
The final poem, “Critique de la poésie,” evokes the assassinations of Federico García Lorca, shot by Franco’s forces at the start of the Spanish Civil War, of Saint-Pol-Roux, the “murdered poet” to whom Vercors dedicated Le Silence de la mer, and of Jacques Decour, shot by the Nazis at Fort Mont-Valérien in Suresnes on 30 May 1942.
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