Chronique
Marseille, Cahiers du Sud, (October 23) 1959.
1 vol. (145 x 225 mm) of 58 p. and [3] f. In wrappers.
First edition. One of only 100 hors commerce copies, numbered on pur fil paper (no. 53), signed.
Signed presentation inscription in ink to Antonio Aita:
“Pour Antonio Aita dont la pensée argentine a toujours rejoint la pensée française dans un même sens de l'universel. St John Perse, Washington, 1960.”
Cover sunned.
Signed presentation inscription in ink to Antonio Aita:
“Pour Antonio Aita dont la pensée argentine a toujours rejoint la pensée française dans un même sens de l'universel. St John Perse, Washington, 1960.”
Cover sunned.
This first edition is the offprint of issue no. 352 of Cahiers du Sud; the work would receive its first public trade edition from Gallimard in 1960, the year Saint-John Perse was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
An essayist, writer, historian of literature and, for many years, secretary of the Argentine PEN Club, Antonio Aita was a French speaker who received the Académie française’s Prix Vermeil in 1936. He corresponded with Paul Valéry, Francis de Miomandre, Valery Larbaud and Jean Giraudoux, and was a close acquaintance of Borges. Aita had met the French poet in Buenos Aires, and the correspondence between the two men, spanning 1951 to 1961, is preserved at the Fondation Saint-John Perse.
Sunning to the front cover and spine.
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