Le musée Grévin. - Les poissons noirs et quelques poèmes inédits

Les éditions de minuit | Paris 1946 | 12 x17.5 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.

Partly original edition of this masterpiece of Resistance literature.
Pleasant copy.

Moving handwritten inscription signed by Louis Aragon to Jacques Charpentier: «ce livre contre l'oubli.» («This book against forgetting.»)