Dingley, l’illustre écrivain
Paris, Édouard Pelletan, (December 3) 1906.
1 vol. (155 x 220 mm) of 155 p., [1] and 1 f. In wrappers, orange cover.
First edition. Frontispiece portrait by Auguste Leroux.
One of 30 copies on vergé d'Arches paper (no. 30).
Long autograph quotation as presentation inscription, signed and dated “Jérôme et Jean Tharaud, Paris, Février 1907.”
One of 30 copies on vergé d'Arches paper (no. 30).
Long autograph quotation as presentation inscription, signed and dated “Jérôme et Jean Tharaud, Paris, Février 1907.”
Awarded the Prix Goncourt for this satirical novel, the Tharaud brothers — close collaborators of Maurice Barrès — deliver a critique of the vanities and illusions of the literary world. Dingley, an imaginary English writer, embodies ambition and the illusion of glory in an ironic portrait combining social criticism and self-mockery by writers observing their own milieu.
This award marked a turning point: for the first time, the Goncourt jury honored not a great realist or exotic fresco, but a satirical novel about literature itself, foreshadowing the self-reflexive treatment of the literary world that others would later pursue.
From the “Prix Goncourt” library of Gérard Pouguet, with bookplate.
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