Robert Vivier - DÉCHIRURES - 1927

Third poetic work by Robert Vivier, rare, second edition, reissued immediately after the publication of the first edition in 1927, and in every respect identical.
With a portrait of the author reproduced from an original lithograph by M.-L. Baugniet.
Enriched by a contemporary autograph dedication from the author to the Italian professor at the University of Liège, undecipherable, as it is annotated and erased.

Poet of the daily mystery, Robert Vivier (1894-1989) speaks of childhood nostalgia, friendship, oblivion, the passage of time, and death. He readily practices blank verse, and his poetry sometimes echoes that of the French Unanimists. Vivier was also an important philologist, successor to Maeterlinck at the Royal Academy of French Language and Literature.

Condition: signs of wear on the edges of the cover (creases at the corners, small tears at the hinges, slight detachment of the spine); overall, a good copy.

Boitsfort - Brussels, Chez l'Auteur (H. Kumps-Robyn Press, Brussels), 1927, 130 pages, octavo, beige softcover binding, title printed in black (back cover blank); stripped-down, essential modernist graphics in black and red