Le Supplice de Phèdre
Paris, Nrf, (October 10) 1926.
1 vol. (170 x 220 mm) of 251 p., [1] and 1 f. In wrappers, uncut, in a slipcase.
First edition.
One of 109 réimposé copies on vergé paper, this one nominative for A. Zuloaga (no. XLVII).
One of 109 réimposé copies on vergé paper, this one nominative for A. Zuloaga (no. XLVII).
A close friend of Jean Cocteau and a familiar figure in the circle of the Nouvelle Revue Française, Henri Deberly received the Prix Goncourt for this psychological novel, in which jealousy, passion and cruelty of feeling crystallize. Drawing on the tragic legacy of Racine, Le Supplice de Phèdre transposes the springs of an intimate drama into a contemporary setting, and confirmed the jury’s predilection for writers linked to the Nouvelle Revue Française, which, after Proust (1919), Fabre (1923) and Sandre (1924), continued to accumulate distinctions and established the celebrated review as the principal breeding ground of French literature between the wars.
From the “Prix Goncourt” library of Gérard Pouguet, with bookplate.
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