Books and Documents

No copy recorded in the CCF. One copy recorded in Worldcat (Mexico).

Printed on yellow paper.

Volume X of Le Dernier Royaume, deluxe issue

Deluxe-paper copy

Deluxe-paper issue of the author's 'testament'

Deluxe-paper copy of this collection of political texts

Deluxe-paper copy

Kundera's postmodern manifesto, to Maurice Nadeau

Signed to Maurice Nadeau

Rare printing, on fine paper, signed by Cocteau

Relations between the two men had soured with the publication of Le Potomak in 1919, when Gide attacked the poems of Le Cap de Bonne-Espérance. Cocteau later recalled: “He summoned me like a schoolboy in trouble before the headmaster and read me an open letter he intended for me. [...] In Gide's letter, I appeared…

It was at Avernes, a small village some fifty kilometers northwest of Paris, in a long building poetically named “le Four à chaux de Marie Godard,” that the traveler-writer often withdrew to compose first Les Cavaliers, then Les Temps sauvages. He began writing it upon returning from a trip to Afghanistan with his wife.For Kessel,…

The clandestine Éditions de Minuit, including Le Silence de la mer

Deluxe issue of the author's thriller

Jean Cocteau had described to his mother the outlines of the character he was contemplating for La Moitié d'ombre, the first title of Le Grand Écart: "it will be a heart rich and pure, mixed with the baseness of a city, walking along the edge, like sleepwalkers along the edge of a roof. A sensibility…

Announcing Le Poète assassiné

Hélion to Tanning and Ernst

This first novel — awarded the Prix Renaudot — tells "the story of a man who could not quite tell whether he had come out of the army or out of a psychiatric asylum," and is, according to its author — then twenty-three years old — the work of an adolescent. Answering journalist Jacques-Pierre Amette…

Mitterrand's own copy, inscribed by Kundera

From one President to another: the François Mitterrand copy

A family copy

Sagan to President Mitterrand