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 (unlettered) 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).
The final volume of the Coûfontaine trilogy, following L’Otage and Le Pain dur. Claudel continues the story of a family caught, across several generations, in the political and religious upheavals of the nineteenth century. The “humiliated father” is Pope Pius IX, whose temporal power collapsed with the entry of Italian troops into Rome in September 1870: the Pope lost the Papal States and considered himself a prisoner in the Vatican. Claudel turns this political humiliation into a spiritual question.
Spine faded.
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