Title: Royaume-Farfelu. Histoire.
Description: Paris: Editions de la Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1928. 1928. - Quarto, 9-1/2 inches high by 7-1/2 inches wide. Softcover, bound in printed light gray wraps titled in black on the spine and in red & black on the front cover. The edges of the covers are darkened and the overlapping front edges are creased and slightly chipped. There is a two inch piece out from the head of the spine and a smaller piece out from the tail of the spine with slight chipping to the top inner edge of the covers. 89 deckle-edged pages plus the colophon. There is a short tear to the front edge of the half title and the overlapping front edges of the pages are lightly darkened. The second to last page has been roughly opened with some small piece out from the front top edge of that leaf. A largely unopened copy. Very good.
First edition. Of a total edition of 572 copies, this is one of 470 on "velin pur fil Lafuma Navare".
A surrealist's fantasy novel, Andre Malraux's "Royaume-Farfelu" was based on his travels to Isfahan, one of the architectural marvels of Iran. As described in Domnica Radulescu's essay "Malraux's Royaume-Farfelu: the Discourse of Desire and the Symbolic Murder of Woman" (Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA), the novel "initiates a new mode in Malraux' expression of sensuality and offers a complex image of femininity. The female presence oscillates between an ideal of beauty and an unsettling image of destruction.. The melancholy that envelops the female presences in the novel reflects Malraux's wonder at the female heart and his growing awareness of her suffering. By means of the 'farfelu' discourse and symbolism, Malraux moves towards a many-sided image of woman, as well as towards the liberation from the fears generated by her presence, man coming to terms with his soul... Good .
Keywords: LITERATURE; FANTASY; SURREALISM; ANDRE MALRAUX; FIRST EDITION; ROYAUME-FARFELU; HISTOIRE; TWENTIETH CENTURY; 1ST EDITION; 20TH CENTURY; LIMITED EDITION; FICTION; SURREALIST; MODERN LIT; FRENCH; NOVEL.
- Book number: 29336
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