Beatrix Beck [Prix Goncourt 1952] - Léon Morin / prêtre. Roman [1/60 sur vélin pur fil] - 1952

Béatrix Beck
Léon Morin, priest

Paris, Gallimard, Collection Blanche, February 1952 (for the print run of the first edition; general sale on March 28, 1952). In-12 (120 x 190 mm), 237 pages, [1] leaf, Paperback, cream cover printed in red and black
One of 60 copies on Lafuma-Navarre pure rag paper, the sole large paper edition, here no. 47.
Goncourt Prize 1952.
Very good condition.

During the Occupation in a provincial city, Barny, a young widow, atheist and communist activist, decides out of provocation to enter a confessional to challenge a priest. There she meets Léon Morin, a young, intellectual, free and disconcerting cleric. Instead of a moralistic confrontation, an intense and ambiguous spiritual dialogue develops between them, blending sexual unrest and the search for faith.