One of 205 deluxe copies on vélin pur fil Lafuma-Navarre paper (no. 143).
“Paradis perdu,” the title story of the collection, first appeared in the United States in the magazine Transition in 1927, before being translated and included in this French collection of previously untranslated stories, written between 1921 and 1938 and drawn from a volume published in the United States in 1939 under the title The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories. Two other stories from that volume would later be translated separately into French: “Cinquante mille dollars” and “Dix Indiens.”
Hills Like White Elephants — its original title — addresses, without naming it in order to avoid censorship, the question of abortion and a woman’s renunciation of the dream of having a child. Philippe Sollers gave a complete translation in 1992, in the literary review L’Infini (no. 37), under the title Collines comme des éléphants blancs, which reproduces Hemingway’s title word for word.
Fine condition of the fragile wrappers.