Signé; Robert Brasillach - L'enfant de la nuit [e.o. avec envoi de l'auteur] - 1934

Original edition signed by Robert Brasillach 'to Mrs. [Deletaud Tastif?], respectfully grateful homage...'

Copy of the current edition, in an attractive half-marbled leather binding, with an ornately decorated spine, and the title and author's name in gilt letters.

Condition: binding in good condition, slight rubbing on the nerves. Interior clean, with aged paper but no foxing. In very good condition.

The Child of the Night (1934) is the second novel by Robert Brasillach, published two years after The Spark Thief. Far from the Mediterranean optimism of the latter, The Child of the Night paints a rather dark picture of a neighborhood in Paris and its inhabitants. The transition from 1933 to 1934 was not perceived in France as a prosperous period: in January 1933, Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Nazi Germany; the same year, the Violette Nozière affair made headlines in the judicial and criminal press, with its story of debauchery and misguided youth. Brasillach followed the trial's developments as a journalist. Aspects of the personality of this libertine parricide are also reflected, in a subdued form, in his heroine, little Anne.

Brasillach reveals himself here as the poet of the common people of Paris, an aggregation of urban villages. Champion of ephemeral youth, the novelist paints with genuine tenderness the lives of Parisians, especially that of Anne, who has a devil in her.

Signed; Robert Brasillach (1909-1945)
The Child of the Night [original version with author's inscription]
Paris, Plon, 1934
in-8 (18.5 x 12 cm); 254 pages. 1 figure.

Subject: Sending Robert Brasillach The Child of the Night Paris 1934 Original Edition