La Mise à mort
€1,250.00
La Mise à mort represents a late, experimental peak in Aragon’s prose. Hovering between novel, memoir and theatre, it orchestrates mirrored voices through cinematic montage. Love, memory and masking interweave against faint political reverberations. Inheriting surrealist procedures, Aragon hones collage into a supple, musical syntax. Issued in 1965 in a small bibliophile printing, this copy on Hollande paper remains pristine and unopened. A compelling union of textual innovation and material refinement.
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Aragon, Louis
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La Mise à mort
1965 | Paris | NRF
An essential junction of literary modernity and bibliophilic rarity; a reference copy for the discerning collector.
La Mise à mort represents a late, experimental peak in Aragon’s prose. Hovering between novel, memoir and theatre, it orchestrates mirrored voices through cinematic montage. Love, memory and masking interweave against faint political reverberations. Inheriting surrealist procedures, Aragon hones collage into a supple, musical syntax. Issued in 1965 in a small bibliophile printing, this copy on Hollande paper remains pristine and unopened. A compelling union of textual innovation and material refinement.
€1,250
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In-8 (Octavo) approx. 20 × 26 cm
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One of 50 exemplaires de tête on Hollande paper.
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50
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4
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A hybrid novel built on montage, memory and role-play; Aragon probes love and identity through shifting viewpoints and theatrical set-pieces.
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