Eugène Ionesco - La quête intermittente [E.O. ; ex. de tête sur vélin pur chiffon n°26/30] - 1987

Original edition of these pages from a personal journal, marked by anxiety about death, which follow the Journal in Fragments, published twenty years earlier.

Rare head exemplar, one of the first 30 on pure cotton vellum from Rives Arjomari-Prioux, numbered 1 to 30, this one is No. 27.

Paperback, folded cover printed in red and black. Housed in a cardboard slipcase edged with red leather.

Condition: in excellent condition. Impeccable interior. A choice specimen.

Eugène Ionesco's work with this book serves as his testament. It consists of chronicles on the passage of time: old age, illness, death. Along the way, he provides keys to open the reader's understanding and sensitivity to the world.

Eugène Ionesco
The intermittent quest
Paris, Nrf Gallimard, 1987
in-8 (21.5 x 14.5 cm); 168pp. 4f.