Signé; Robert Brasillach - Portraits: Barrès, Proust, Maurras, Colette, Giraudoux, Morand, etc... [envoi à Lucien Corpechot] - 1935

Original edition of this collection of literary portraits compiled by Robert Brasillach (1909-1945), published in 1935. Enriched with the author's inscription: [to Lucien Corpechot, in respectful homage].

Paperback, with printed cover.
In very good condition. Creased spine and small tear to the headbands. Discreet pinpricks on the covers. Interior fresh and clean.

Lucien Corpechot (1871-1946) was editor-in-chief at Le Figaro, Le Gaulois, and L’Écho de Paris. Connected to Maurice Barrès, Paul Bourget, Charles Maurras, and a friend of Gyp, whose salon he frequented, he contributed to numerous newspapers under his own name or under the pseudonym 'Curtius'.

In summary:

Full hands, Colette or Sido's wisdom, Charles Maurras or the essential: claim for the hero - Poetry of reason, Poetic arts, Four images of Marcel Proust: In Search of Lost Happiness - The parable of the ark - Marcel Proust's poetic art - Elstir; Jean Giraudoux's theater! On Madame de Noailles' word; After inventories; Jean Cocteau or the poet with masks; Paul Morand or what protects itself; Joseph Delteil or the forgotten; André Malraux or the pain of heroism; Drieu de La Rochelle or a flash in the pan; Jean Guéhenno or the warm impostor.

Robert Brasillach
Portraits. Barrès, Proust, Maurras, Colette, Giraudoux, Morand, Cocteau, Malraux, etc.
Paris, Plon, 1935
In-12 (18 x 12 cm); 245 pages