Trois coups sous les arbres. Théâtre saisonnier
Trois coups sous les arbres is René Char’s major collected theatrical volume, published by the NRF in Paris in 1967. For the first time it gathers his complete theatre in a single book, from Sur les hauteurs to La Conjuration, thus revealing a lesser-known yet essential side of his oeuvre. Though Char is usually read as a poet, this edition shows how powerfully his voice also works in dramatic form: fragmentary, incantatory, lucid, and enigmatic at once. The survival of the wraparound band announcing “Le théâtre complet de René Char en un volume” adds a valuable layer of original presentation and publishing context. The deluxe issue on Hollande van Gelder underscores the bibliophile importance of the first edition. This copy gains still more significance from the autograph inscription to Dr Marcel Zara, whose wording resonates closely with the theatrical subject of the book. For collectors, it is a major Char work in a rare and personally charged state.
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Trois coups sous les arbres. Théâtre saisonnier
1967 | Paris | NRF
An essential Char edition in a rare deluxe issue, preserved with its band and enriched by an unusually meaningful inscription to Dr Marcel Zara.
Trois coups sous les arbres is René Char’s major collected theatrical volume, published by the NRF in Paris in 1967. For the first time it gathers his complete theatre in a single book, from Sur les hauteurs to La Conjuration, thus revealing a lesser-known yet essential side of his oeuvre. Though Char is usually read as a poet, this edition shows how powerfully his voice also works in dramatic form: fragmentary, incantatory, lucid, and enigmatic at once. The survival of the wraparound band announcing “Le théâtre complet de René Char en un volume” adds a valuable layer of original presentation and publishing context. The deluxe issue on Hollande van Gelder underscores the bibliophile importance of the first edition. This copy gains still more significance from the autograph inscription to Dr Marcel Zara, whose wording resonates closely with the theatrical subject of the book. For collectors, it is a major Char work in a rare and personally charged state.
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In-8 (Octavo) approx. 20 × 26 cm
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One of the 25 deluxe copies on Hollande van Gelder, with band and important autograph inscription to Dr Marcel Zara.
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90
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No. 21
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Hollande van Gelder
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This collective volume brings together Char’s dramatic texts Sur les hauteurs, L'Abominable homme des neiges, Claire, Le Soleil des eaux, L'Homme qui marchait dans un Rayon de Soleil, and La Conjuration. It is not classical theatre built on a tightly driven plot, but dramatic writing in which lyricism, dialogue, chorus, landscape, and incantation constantly intermingle. Some pieces begin from recognizable situations and voices, yet develop primarily through rhythm, confrontation, and visionary language. The characters are less psychologically elaborated individuals than bearers of tension, knowledge, or elemental forces. The theatre can therefore be read at once as stage, poem, and moral meditation. The volume offers an exceptional overview of Char’s dramaturgical world, between postwar experience, mythic intensity, and sensory clarity. Its atmosphere is concentrated, musical, and often oracular, yet never loses its concrete earthly grounding.
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