Octave Mirbeau / Pierre Falké - Dingo - 1923

Beautiful illustrated and numbered edition of this very good, singular novel in which the author transposes his critical gaze on society through the adventures of an extravagant dog, inspired by his own pet, who becomes the revealer of human hypocrisies and cruelties -

The narrative, oscillating between social satire and philosophical fable, presents the anarchic vitality of Dingo, whose instinctive and destructive behaviors reveal the brutality of the French countryside, the stupidity of the elites, and the latent violence of human relationships.

Mirbeau, faithful to his corrosive style, uses the animal as a mirror of man, highlighting the absurdity of conventions and the ferocity of repressed instincts, while building a hybrid work, at once a naturalist narrative, a moral pamphlet and a meditation on freedom -

Falké's illustrations, with their expressive line and sense of the grotesque, emphasize the satirical and visual dimension of the text, giving body to the scenes of carnage, comedy, and chaos that the dog provokes -

It is illustrated with superb colored woodcuts by Pierre Falké.

Octave Mirbeau / Pierre Falké - Dingo - 1923 - Henri Jonquières & Co.
pp.329

Very good condition of the binding, the work in its half-binding in green calf with corner pieces, the edges separated by magnificent gilt fillets, marbled boards, slight signs of wear, especially on the joints, gilded head, a smooth spine decorated in red and gold bearing the title and the author's name gilded, gold fillets on the boards -

Very good interior condition, red title, tailpieces, pretty decorative borders in the form of illustrations, the work enriched with beautiful colored engravings in and out of the text, including a frontispiece, marbled endpapers, a numbered edition limited to 1180 copies, one of 1100 on Rives vélin containing the final state of the illustrations -

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