(to Maurice BLANCHOT) Paul LEVY
Le chemin de la mosquée
Grasset|Paris 1946|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition, false statement of third edition, Service de Presse stamp.
Precious signed autograph inscription from the author to his friend Maurice Blanchot: "... à qui je ne veux rien dire de ce livre si plein de douleur, mais qui, j'en suis sûr, comprendra" ["... to whom I want to say nothing about this book so full of sorrow, but who, I am sure, will understand"].
From 1933, Blanchot was the principal editor of the newspapers founded by Paul Lévy, "Le Rempart" and "aux Ecoutes", with clearly patriotic, anti-democratic, anti-parliamentary, anti-capitalist orientations while simultaneously focused on denouncing Hitlerism and anti-Jewish persecutions. The friendship between the two men, along with that of Lévinas, would contribute to Blanchot's political reversal as he progressively refused the anti-Semitic drift and fascist radicalization that threatened him. In 1940, he "officially" took over the direction of Paul Lévy's newspaper and in November saved him by warning him of his imminent arrest. Paul Lévy fled to Morocco. It was during this exile that he wrote 'Le chemin de la Mosquée', a novel inspired by his political engagement of the 1920s-30s and questioning their consequences. A painful text that Blanchot could indeed "understand".
Handsome copy.
Precious signed autograph inscription from the author to his friend Maurice Blanchot: "... à qui je ne veux rien dire de ce livre si plein de douleur, mais qui, j'en suis sûr, comprendra" ["... to whom I want to say nothing about this book so full of sorrow, but who, I am sure, will understand"].
From 1933, Blanchot was the principal editor of the newspapers founded by Paul Lévy, "Le Rempart" and "aux Ecoutes", with clearly patriotic, anti-democratic, anti-parliamentary, anti-capitalist orientations while simultaneously focused on denouncing Hitlerism and anti-Jewish persecutions. The friendship between the two men, along with that of Lévinas, would contribute to Blanchot's political reversal as he progressively refused the anti-Semitic drift and fascist radicalization that threatened him. In 1940, he "officially" took over the direction of Paul Lévy's newspaper and in November saved him by warning him of his imminent arrest. Paul Lévy fled to Morocco. It was during this exile that he wrote 'Le chemin de la Mosquée', a novel inspired by his political engagement of the 1920s-30s and questioning their consequences. A painful text that Blanchot could indeed "understand".
Handsome copy.
€800