Barbe bleue
Paris, Albin Michel, (June) 2012.
1 vol. (135 x 220 mm) of 169 p. In wrappers, uncut.
First edition.
One of 35 copies on vergé de Hollande paper, from the deluxe issue (no. 5).
One of 35 copies on vergé de Hollande paper, from the deluxe issue (no. 5).
A contemporary rewriting of Perrault’s tale, Barbe bleue is a closed-door drama set in a Parisian mansion, in which Saturnine Puissant, a young Belgian teaching at the École du Louvre, becomes the flatmate of Don Elemirio Nibal y Milcar, a Spanish grandee as refined as he is unsettling. There is one rule: never enter the “dark room,” a forbidden chamber where the portraits of the eight previous tenants are displayed.
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