Author: Jouhandeau, Marcel [1888-1979]
Title: Monsieur Godeau marié
Description: Paris, Gallimard, (1933). First edition. binder's cloth. 19x12cm, 250,(4) pp, Light browning to spine. Contemporary binder's cloth with original cover wrappers bound-in.. Light binding corner bumps. Light cover soil. VG. ¶ Édition originale". Copy nr. 10 of 85 published. ("vingt exemplaires ré servés aux Amis de l'Édition Originale numérotés de 1 à 20...) ["...As a very young man, Marcel Jouhandeau discovered his homosexual feelings which provoked great guilt as offensive to God. Still, his feelings of shame did not prevent him from engaging in numerous homosexual acts and his whole life alternated between a celebration of the male body and mortification of sexuality. In 1914, during a mystical crisis, he burned his manuscripts and attempted suicide. Once the crisis had passed, he turned again to writing and created the village chronicles which brought him his first literary successes. During World War I, he was initially a secretary in his hometown of Guéret. In 192 4 he published Pincegrain, a barely disguised chronicle of the inhabitants of Guéret, which shocked the people of the town. His voyages became an opportunity for him to give himself over to his love of men, as he recounted in the Amateur d'imprudences. At age 40, he married a dancer, Élisabeth Toulemont, known as Caryathis « Elyse », the former mistress of Charles Dullin and an intimate friend of Jean Cocteau and Max Jacob. She hoped to rid him of his homosexual leanings. During this period he undertook a work of Christian moralism (De l'abjection) before tumbling again into the arms of men -- much to the dismay of his wife -- which he wrote about in Chronique d'une passion and Eloge de la volupté." - wikipedia].

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