Éducation européenne
One of 3,500 numbered copies, the only printing (no. 303). Design by Pierre Faucheux.
This edition is far from a minor variant: no other text by Gary was ever revised, corrected and reworked as much as his first novel, proof of how important it remained to him.
This 1961 edition contains two additional chapters (33 instead of 31), plus an epilogue, as well as documents supplied by the “Bureau d’informations polonaises,” reproduced at the end.
The book’s “original title” (La Forêt engloutie) also resurfaces in these additions, when Gary opens his chapter 33 (written around 1960) with these exact words. It is worth noting that the phrase would later be used again in Les Cerfs-volants (Folio ed. 1467, p. 126) as the title of a poem by the (obviously fictional) Polish author named… Walden — a detail too fitting to pass over in silence.