Anatole France (eigentl. François-Anatole Thibault)
French poet and journalist, 1844-1924
"Ironic and skeptical, France was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Académie française, and won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature ""in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements, characterized as they are by a nobility of style, a profound human sympathy, grace, and a true Gallic temperament"". ""La Revolte des Anges"" (Revolt of the Angels, 1914) is often considered Anatole France's most profound and ironic novel. He is also widely believed to be the model for narrator Marcel's literary idol Bergotte in Marcel Proust's ""In Search of Lost Time""."
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writer and Nobel laureate (1844-1924). Autogr. inscription signed in: L'Ile des Pingouins. Paris. 8vo. (4), XV, (1), 419, (1) pp. Contemporary half cloth with giltstamped spine label; original printer wrappers bound within.
$ 1,286 / 1.200 €
(33107/BN27893)
First edition of this splendid satire, in which a colony of penguins is accidentally baptized and then undergoes all the stages of the development of European history. As much an example of the productiveness of satire in the vein of Rabelais and Swift as a striking precursor to modern Science Fiction. - Half-title bears author's signed autograph inscription to the writer and politician Maurice Spronck (1861-1921): "A Maurice Spronck, souvenir affectueux. Anatole France." - Bottom and foredge untrimmed.