Paris, Bernard Grasset, (January 23) 1912.
1 vol. (125 x 185 mm) of 303 p., [2] and 1 f. Half brown morocco with corners, spine with raised bands, gilt title, date gilt at foot, top edge gilt, original wrappers and spine preserved (binding signed Devauchelle).
First edition.
One of 30 copies on Hollande paper (no. 36).
One of 30 copies on Hollande paper (no. 36).
Bernard Grasset’s second Prix Goncourt, awarded a year after Monsieur des Lourdines, which had immediately established the young publisher as a major figure on the literary scene. Filles de la pluie paints a harsh and picturesque portrait of the women of the island of Ouessant, marked by isolation, maritime labor and a hard existence at the edge of Brittany.
The novel caused a scandal among the women of Ouessant, who sued Savignon for defamation — proof of the realistic and uncompromising force of his portrayal. In honoring a text of provincial manners captured with an almost ethnographic realism, the jury’s choice extended the social and regional orientation the prize had begun to favor in previous years.
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