Les Petits Enfants du siècle
Paris, Grasset, (January 31) 1961.
1 vol. (120 x 190 mm) of 206 p. and [1] f. In wrappers, uncut.
First edition.
One of 130 deluxe copies on vélin pur fil, this copy hors commerce (no. XXII).
Signed presentation inscription: “À mon cher Raymond Queneau dont j'ai subi l'influence mais pas assez, avec mon admiration. Christine Rochefort.”
One of 130 deluxe copies on vélin pur fil, this copy hors commerce (no. XXII).
Signed presentation inscription: “À mon cher Raymond Queneau dont j'ai subi l'influence mais pas assez, avec mon admiration. Christine Rochefort.”
Three years after her first novel, Le Repos du guerrier, Les Petits Enfants du siècle is a further social satire. “The originality of this dark novel is to end as a romance, one whose final flourish is no doubt a touch of irony. Yet on this backdrop of coarse-worded, crude-scened populism, Mme Rochefort has managed to graft poetry onto her narrative […]. In the end, an excellent fictional creation of a world, a character, a language. And in this depiction of life, where cruelty, vulgarity, tenderness and poetry mingle, a true and profound realism” (Jacqueline Piater, Le Monde, 4 March 1961).
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