JOUVRE, Pierre Jean. Heures: Livre de la Nuit. Geneva: Editions du Sablier. 1919.
8vo; original beige card wrappers with black lettering on the title page which displays issue date and publishers as well as the address of publishers printed to the back cover; pp. [10], 15-131, [3]; edges untrimmed; slight foxing to both end papers; staining to bottom of pp. 102-103; otherwise very good.
First limited edition, one of 200 copies printed on vélin anglais, with a woodcut frontispiece by Frans Masreel.
Pierre Jean Jouvre, a five-time Nobel Prize nominee in Literature, opens Heures: Le Livre de la Nuit (Hours, Book of the Night) with the haunting lines, “There is no victory / There is only dark defeat” (trans.). The poem is accompanied by an evocative plate from celebrated graphic artist Frans Masereel.
After undergoing psychoanalysis in 1928, Jouvre controversially renounced all of his previous material, turning instead to interpretations of Freud. A fierce anti-fascist campaigner, Jouvre was one of the leading literary voices at the forefront of the French resistance.
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