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Le condamné à mort

S. n.|Fresnes 1942|14 x 21.50 cm|en feuilles sous couverture rose

€12,000
⬨ 63635
First edition of Jean Genet's debut work, written at Fresnes, printed in a few copies and published at the author’s expense, which appeared clandestinely while he was serving a prison sentence for book theft. The pamphlet, thirteen pages, unbound and unpaginated, was printed on brown paper under a pink or white cover.
Our copy is housed in a half old-rose box chemise, boards of geometrically patterned paper, slipcase trimmed in old-rose box, the ensemble signed by Thomas Boichot.

« J'ai dédié ce poème à la mémoire de mon ami Maurice Pilorge, dont le corps et le visage radieux hantent mes nuits sans sommeil... ». Thus Jean Genet explained the genesis of this poem, a tribute to « l'assassin de 20 ans », guillotined, with whom he shared the last forty days. According to François Sentein, biographer of Maurice Pilorge (L'Assassin et son bourreau), the two men never actually met and Jean Genet would make him into an imagined companion, « mort avec l'insouciance d'un dandy » (Edmund White, Jean Genet). Jean Cocteau, who would become both friend and guardian angel to Jean Genet—saving him from life imprisonment a few years later—wrote in his Journal: « Parfois, il m'arrive un miracle. Par exemple, Le Condamné à mort de Jean Genet. Je crois qu'il n'en existe que quatre exemplaires. Il a déchiré le reste. Ce long poème est une splendeur. Jean Genet sort de Fresnes (la plaquette est datée de la prison, « Fresnes, septembre 1942 »). Poème érotique à la gloire de Maurice Pilorge, assassin de vingt ans, exécuté le 12 mars 1939, à Saint-Brieuc. L'érotisme de Genet ne choque jamais. Son obscénité n'est jamais obscène. Un grand mouvement magnifique domine tout. La prose qui débute est courte, insolente, hautaine. Style parfait. »
Extremely rare and very attractive copy as published.

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  • author:
    GENET Jean
  • Publisher:
    s. n.
  • Place of publication:
    Fresnes
  • Year:
    1942
  • Dimensions:
    14 x 21.50 cm
Réf : 63635|€12,000
Jean GENET • Le condamné à mort • 1942
Jean GENET • Le condamné à mort • 1942
Jean GENET • Le condamné à mort • 1942
Jean GENET • Le condamné à mort • 1942
Jean GENET • Le condamné à mort • 1942
Jean GENET • Le condamné à mort • 1942
Jean GENET • Le condamné à mort • 1942
€12,000
⬨ 63635

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