SENANCOUR (Étienne Pierre Pivert de). Oberman.... - Lot 323 - Ferri & Associés

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SENANCOUR (Étienne Pierre Pivert de). Oberman.... - Lot 323 - Ferri & Associés
SENANCOUR (Étienne Pierre Pivert de). Oberman. Letters published by M... Senancour, author of Rêveries sur la nature de l'homme... Paris, Cérioux, year XII (1804). 2 volumes in-8 (204 x 127 mm) dark blue half calf, spines decorated with gilt and fr. irons, marbled edges. (Binding of the period). FIRST EDITION. (2) ff, X preliminary pp. of Observations, not reported by Vicaire, 384 pp, Table, Indications (3 ff.); (2) ff, 382 pp. the last one for "Necessary Corrections" not numbered. In addition, at the end of vol. II a box for pages IX and X of the first volume has been bound in. (page IX had been numbered XI by mistake). Unnoticed at its publication in 1804, it was not until the edition prefaced by Sainte-Beuve, in 1833, that this novel of initiation by letters came to arouse the fervour of the romantic generation. George Sand prefaced it in 1840 and Liszt dedicated two pieces of the Années de pèlerinage to it. Balzac and Delacroix were no less enthusiastic, the former causing one of the protagonists of Un grand homme de province à Paris to declare that Oberman is "a magnificent book, the pianto of disbelief." It is also known that it was greatly appreciated by Odilon Redon, who described it as "black and beautiful." Senancour (1770-1846) depicts as a prophet a soul prey to the "disorder of boredom", this evil of the century. "First in date of the intimate novels; beside Adolphe and Volupté, Oberman remains the masterpiece" says Monglond - indicating moreover that it is advisable to prefer the text of 1804 to the reworked versions. Bibliothèque nationale, En français dans le texte, 1990, n° 209 - Clouzot, p. 251: "Very rare and much sought after" - Stoddard, Pages d'un carnet bibliographique, 1999, p. 329 - Monglond, VI, 87 From the Sforza (1933, no. 160) and André Lefèvre (III, 650) libraries. A PLEASANT COPY IN CONTEMPORARY BINDING.
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