Le Père humilié
Paris, Éditions de la NRF, (April 12) 1920.
1 vol. (165 x 210 mm) of 189 p. and [1] f. Half tan morocco, gilt title, date gilt at foot, top edge gilt, original wrappers and spine (blank) preserved.
First edition.
One of 133 réimposé copies on Lafuma Voiron laid paper (no. LXXXVIII).
One of 133 réimposé copies on Lafuma Voiron laid paper (no. LXXXVIII).
With Le Père humilié, Paul Claudel completed one of his major dramatic cycles. Begun with L’Otage and continued in Le Pain dur, the Trilogie des Coûfontaine follows a single family across several generations, swept up in the political, religious and social upheavals of the nineteenth century. The title refers first to a father in the highest sense: Pius IX, the pope stripped of his temporal power when Italian troops entered Rome in September 1870, causing him to lose the Papal States and consider himself a prisoner in the Vatican. Claudel turns this political humiliation into a spiritual question, while also reflecting on fatherhood, possession and sacrifice.
Spine faded.
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