Octave Mirbeau / Pierre Falké - Dingo - 1923

Fascinating edition deliciously illustrated with 32 pretty wood engravings enhanced in color, including a frontispiece, and 11 vignettes in black on elegant Rives vellum paper (231) -

This novel centers on the singular relationship between a man and a dog of exceptional intelligence and savagery -

The story follows Dingo, a stray dog adopted by a narrator, whose instinctive and unpredictable behavior upends the social and moral order of the villages he traverses. Through this animal character, Mirbeau develops a virulent critique of human society, its hypocrisies, its violence, and its absurd conventions -

The dog paradoxically appears freer and more authentic than humans, thereby revealing the contradictions and baseness of human nature. The novel alternates realist observation with a symbolic dimension, granting the animal a nearly philosophical significance. Mirbeau's style is incisive, ironic, and often satirical, strengthening the critical impact of the narrative -

Octave Mirbeau / Pierre Falké - Dingo - 1923 - Henri Jonquières & Cie -
331 Pages.

Good condition of the binding, paperback in its full illustrated flexible cover with original flap, slight wear, a few minor defects on the cover, edges dulled, smooth spine titled, as well as the first cover, superb black motif in the center of the second cover -

Very good interior condition, slight browning, red title, lavishly illustrated edition with 32 pretty wood engravings enhanced in color including a frontispiece, and 11 vignettes in black, copy no. 231/1180 + 20 unique prints, this one on elegant Rives vellum paper, from a major library of a bibliophile collector, all leaves carefully bound, text clean, body of the book and hinges in excellent condition -

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