Le noir est une couleur

Second edition.
Rare autograph dated and signed by Réal to master Laurent Moutinot.
Book illustrated with a reproduction of a painting by the author on the cover.
Réal, writer, painter and prostitute, is a great figure of the romantic end of the twentieth century. Lover, activist, fighter and poet, she shoved the morals of Geneva society. She is now buried at the Cemetery of the Kings in Geneva between John Calvin and Jorge Luis Borges.
Black is a color evokes his youth, his elopement with an American military to years of forced prostitution.
If literature saves of his condition, yet she péripatétitienne resume its business by turning it into a philosophy of life, fighting all his life for the social recognition and for the rights of prostitutes.

Iconography, nice copy.