2 éditions rares de Franz Hellens sur Valery Larbaud - 1963
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Two rare editions by Franz Hellens on Valery Larbaud, Liège 1972 and Liège Dynamo 1963, original editions limited to 51 copies, with special printings on Hollande and white vélin.
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Larbaud (V.)
The Translator's Scales. Hellens (F.) First meeting with Valery Larbaud.
Liège, 1972, Aelberts, octavo paperback.
Original edition limited to 51 copies. One of the 10 copies on Hollande paper.
Larbaud (V.)
Apology of the Linotype by Ramon Gomez de la Serna. Translated from Spanish by V. Larbaud. Presented by F. Helles.
Liège edit. Dynamo (1963) in-12 br.
Original edition. Limited to 51 copies. One of 40 copies on white vellum.
Condition: excellent / like new
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Valery Larbaud is a French writer, poet, novelist, essayist, and translator, born on August 29, 1881, in Vichy, the city where he died on February 2, 1957.
He also wrote under the pseudonyms: A.-O. Barnabooth, L. Hagiosy, X. M. Tourmier de Zamble.
Valery Larbaud is the only child of pharmacist Nicolas Larbaud, owner of the Vichy Saint-Yorre spring (fifty-nine years old at the time of his son's birth), and Isabelle Bureau des Étivaux (thirty-eight years old), daughter of a lawyer and republican activist from Gannat, whose client Nicolas Larbaud was, and whose son's name he took. He was only eight years old when his father died in 1889, in Vichy, at the age of sixty-seven.
Raised by his mother and aunt, he developed a love for literature. In 1895, he traveled along the Mediterranean, and his imagination remained influenced by these landscapes. The young man obtained his baccalaureate in July 1898 and his bachelor's degree in literature in 1908.
His family fortune ensures him a comfortable life that allows him to travel across Europe at great expense. Luxury steamships, the Orient-Express, Valery Larbaud leads the life of a dandy, frequents Montpellier in winter, and visits various thermal stations to treat a fragile health from a young age. When he returns to Vichy, he hosts his friends, Charles-Louis Philippe, André Gide, Léon-Paul Fargue, and G. Jean-Aubry, who will become his biographer.
After suffering a stroke in 1935 that left him with right hemiplegia and aphasia, he spent the last twenty-two years of his life confined to a wheelchair, unable to say anything other than: 'Good evening, the things of this world.' During these years, he was lovingly cared for by Professor Théophile Alajouanine, a specialist in aphasia, who became his friend and wrote his biography.
In 1950, he joined the Friends of Robert Brasillach Association.
Great reader, great translator, he had surrounded himself with books bound according to their languages: English novels in blue, Spanish ones in red, and so on.
Having spent his entire fortune, he had to sell his properties and his library of fifteen thousand volumes in 1948, through a life annuity, to the city of Vichy.
He died there in 1957, without descendants. He is buried at the Bartins cemetery.
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Franz Hellens is the pseudonym of Frédéric Van Ermengem, born on September 8, 1881, in Brussels, and died on January 20, 1972, in the same city. He was a Belgian novelist, poet, essayist, and art critic.
Franz Hellens is the son of the bacteriologist Émile van Ermengem (1851-1932). Until the age of 12, he lived on his parents' property in Wetteren near Ghent. He attended the Jesuit college Sainte-Barbe in Ghent. Then he studied law. He obtained his bachelor's degree and, in 1905, his doctorate. Not liking the profession of lawyer, he became an intern at the Royal Library, then at the Library of Parliament, and later served as chief librarian.
In 1907, he married Marguerite Nyst (1888-1958), the daughter of the man of letters Ray Nyst.
He lived in Paris from 1947 to 1971.
Influenced by Edgar Poe, he is known as one of the major representatives of fantastic literature in Belgium. But he was also the tireless promoter of Belgian Letters, notably through the magazine initially called Signaux de France et de Belgique, then Le Disque vert (1922-1941). It was he who discovered Henri Michaux, before Jean Paulhan took over. Michaux was also part of the editorial committee of Le Disque vert from 1923 to 1925, publishing many of his early writings, some of which were later included in Qui je fus. The magazine reappeared from 1952 to 1954, co-directed by Franz Hellens and René de Solier. Michaux was very admiring of Hellens, especially of his novel Mélusine (1920), notably writing: 'Poet, novelist, writer—his work is of rare diversity—he has written in so many ways—one often gives up trying to find him [...] Such an imagination that there are few like it; it starts from zero and runs to infinity.'
The French Academy awarded him the Academy Prize in 1943, the prize for a work written in French by a foreigner in 1958, and the prize for the influence of the French language and literature in 1971. (see Wikipedia)
Very rare.
Larbaud (V.)
The Translator's Scales. Hellens (F.) First meeting with Valery Larbaud.
Liège, 1972, Aelberts, octavo paperback.
Original edition limited to 51 copies. One of the 10 copies on Hollande paper.
Larbaud (V.)
Apology of the Linotype by Ramon Gomez de la Serna. Translated from Spanish by V. Larbaud. Presented by F. Helles.
Liège edit. Dynamo (1963) in-12 br.
Original edition. Limited to 51 copies. One of 40 copies on white vellum.
Condition: excellent / like new
Track and trace
Professional packaging
Envoi assuré.
Valery Larbaud is a French writer, poet, novelist, essayist, and translator, born on August 29, 1881, in Vichy, the city where he died on February 2, 1957.
He also wrote under the pseudonyms: A.-O. Barnabooth, L. Hagiosy, X. M. Tourmier de Zamble.
Valery Larbaud is the only child of pharmacist Nicolas Larbaud, owner of the Vichy Saint-Yorre spring (fifty-nine years old at the time of his son's birth), and Isabelle Bureau des Étivaux (thirty-eight years old), daughter of a lawyer and republican activist from Gannat, whose client Nicolas Larbaud was, and whose son's name he took. He was only eight years old when his father died in 1889, in Vichy, at the age of sixty-seven.
Raised by his mother and aunt, he developed a love for literature. In 1895, he traveled along the Mediterranean, and his imagination remained influenced by these landscapes. The young man obtained his baccalaureate in July 1898 and his bachelor's degree in literature in 1908.
His family fortune ensures him a comfortable life that allows him to travel across Europe at great expense. Luxury steamships, the Orient-Express, Valery Larbaud leads the life of a dandy, frequents Montpellier in winter, and visits various thermal stations to treat a fragile health from a young age. When he returns to Vichy, he hosts his friends, Charles-Louis Philippe, André Gide, Léon-Paul Fargue, and G. Jean-Aubry, who will become his biographer.
After suffering a stroke in 1935 that left him with right hemiplegia and aphasia, he spent the last twenty-two years of his life confined to a wheelchair, unable to say anything other than: 'Good evening, the things of this world.' During these years, he was lovingly cared for by Professor Théophile Alajouanine, a specialist in aphasia, who became his friend and wrote his biography.
In 1950, he joined the Friends of Robert Brasillach Association.
Great reader, great translator, he had surrounded himself with books bound according to their languages: English novels in blue, Spanish ones in red, and so on.
Having spent his entire fortune, he had to sell his properties and his library of fifteen thousand volumes in 1948, through a life annuity, to the city of Vichy.
He died there in 1957, without descendants. He is buried at the Bartins cemetery.
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Franz Hellens is the pseudonym of Frédéric Van Ermengem, born on September 8, 1881, in Brussels, and died on January 20, 1972, in the same city. He was a Belgian novelist, poet, essayist, and art critic.
Franz Hellens is the son of the bacteriologist Émile van Ermengem (1851-1932). Until the age of 12, he lived on his parents' property in Wetteren near Ghent. He attended the Jesuit college Sainte-Barbe in Ghent. Then he studied law. He obtained his bachelor's degree and, in 1905, his doctorate. Not liking the profession of lawyer, he became an intern at the Royal Library, then at the Library of Parliament, and later served as chief librarian.
In 1907, he married Marguerite Nyst (1888-1958), the daughter of the man of letters Ray Nyst.
He lived in Paris from 1947 to 1971.
Influenced by Edgar Poe, he is known as one of the major representatives of fantastic literature in Belgium. But he was also the tireless promoter of Belgian Letters, notably through the magazine initially called Signaux de France et de Belgique, then Le Disque vert (1922-1941). It was he who discovered Henri Michaux, before Jean Paulhan took over. Michaux was also part of the editorial committee of Le Disque vert from 1923 to 1925, publishing many of his early writings, some of which were later included in Qui je fus. The magazine reappeared from 1952 to 1954, co-directed by Franz Hellens and René de Solier. Michaux was very admiring of Hellens, especially of his novel Mélusine (1920), notably writing: 'Poet, novelist, writer—his work is of rare diversity—he has written in so many ways—one often gives up trying to find him [...] Such an imagination that there are few like it; it starts from zero and runs to infinity.'
The French Academy awarded him the Academy Prize in 1943, the prize for a work written in French by a foreigner in 1958, and the prize for the influence of the French language and literature in 1971. (see Wikipedia)
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Number of Books
2
Book Title
2 éditions rares de Franz Hellens sur Valery Larbaud
Condition
As new
Publication year oldest item
1963
Height
19 cm
Width
14 cm
