Le musée Grévin

Les éditions de minuit | Paris 1943 | 13.5 x 19 cm | original wrappers

The Musée Grévin is one of the first literary references, in 1943, to the camp at Auschwitz: «On the outskirts of Poland, there is a Gehenna whose name whistles and blows an atrocious song. Auschwitz! Auschwitz! O bloody syllables! Here we live, here we die a slow death. We call this slow execution. Part of our hearts slowly perishes there.» Louis Aragon opted for the pseudonym François La Colère, François after a humiliated France and Colère (Anger) against the Vichy regime.

Rare first edition in volume form of this masterpiece of Resistance literature, one of the 100 copies on coated paper, the only grand papier (deluxe) copies.
Statement of second edition, since it was printed after the poster version.
Very beautiful and precious copy.