A. Vimar - La Poule à Poils - 1900-1900

Fascinating illustrated edition of this fanciful and satirical tale blending humor, imagination, and social critique, in which the author builds a quirky universe around an absurd situation or an atypical character -

The work plays on exaggeration, situational comedy, and inventive language to surprise and amuse the reader, while offering an implicit reflection on human behavior, social conventions, and the foibles of society -

Vimar uses the central element—the hair-coated hen—as a pretext for a series of anecdotes and comical situations, alternating lively dialogues, picturesque descriptions, and humorous digressions that give the text a brisk rhythm -

The author thus blends satire, fairy tale, and allegory, allowing the reader to laugh while becoming aware of the absurdities and contradictions of daily life or social relations. The work testifies to mastery of light and inventive writing, which appeals to the reader’s imagination and sense of the absurd -

A. Vimar - La Poule à Poils - SD (Circa 1900) - H. Laurens -
98 pages.

Good condition of the binding, the work in its full blue hardcover adorned with the publisher’s ornament, ordinary wear, rear hinge cracked, smooth spine illustrated in color and titled in black, superb color illustration on the front board with the title in red, pretty black motif in the center of the second board -

Good interior condition, pages slightly browned, last endpaper torn, work enriched with numerous black engravings interspersed in the text and a pretty color frontispiece -

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