Le Complexe de César
Paris, Laffont, (April 19) 1946.
1 vol. (120 x 190 mm) of 279 p. and [2] f. In wrappers.
First edition.
One of 200 copies on vergé paper (no. 194).
Signed presentation inscription: “À Max-Philippe Delatte, ‘gentleman reader’, avec l'amitié de Jean Dutourd.”
One of 200 copies on vergé paper (no. 194).
Signed presentation inscription: “À Max-Philippe Delatte, ‘gentleman reader’, avec l'amitié de Jean Dutourd.”
Jean Dutourd’s first essay, published at the age of twenty-six, Le Complexe de César won the Prix Stendhal in October 1946, awarded by a jury that included Alexandre Arnoux, Jean Cocteau, Julien Green, Gabriel Marcel and Jean Schlumberger.
A former Resistance member, Dutourd offers here a philosophical and moral reflection that already anticipates the taste for satire and the observation of human behavior that would characterize his later work.
A fine copy, inscribed to the Parisian bookseller Max-Philippe Delatte, established on rue de la Pompe, in the 16th arrondissement.
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