signed first edition Portrait frontispiece. [6], xv, 592 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
1947 · Port-Louis, Ile Maurice [Mauritius]
by Chazal, Malcolm de
Port-Louis, Ile Maurice [Mauritius]: The General Printing & Stationery Co. Ltd. T. Esclapon, 1947. First edition, one of 300 copies. Portrait frontispiece. [6], xv, 592 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Illustrated wrappers. Spine toned. First edition, one of 300 copies. Portrait frontispiece. [6], xv, 592 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed to Simone de Beauvoir. Inscribed by the author, "A Madame Simone de Beauvoir / Paris / Hommage / de l'auteur / M. de Chazal / 11/7/47 / Malcolm de Chazal / Port Louis, Ile Maurice"
Separately published volume of "literary impressionism", aphoristic artistic and philosophical musings. An unusual imprint (tome I is already listed as out of print). Gallimard published a second edition in Paris in 1948 and Chazal came to fascinate the surrealists. Auden was a fan, and wrote a foreword to a 1971 partial English translation, "Sens-Plastique has now been a companion of mine for nearly twenty years, and so far as I am concerned, Malcolm de Chazal is much the most original and interesting French writer to emerge since the war".
An unusual presentation to the celebrated French author Simone de Beauvoir, who had been one of the founders of Le Temp Moderne, and whose most significant work, Le Deuxième sexe, was published by Gallimard in 1949. (Inventory #: 368865)
Separately published volume of "literary impressionism", aphoristic artistic and philosophical musings. An unusual imprint (tome I is already listed as out of print). Gallimard published a second edition in Paris in 1948 and Chazal came to fascinate the surrealists. Auden was a fan, and wrote a foreword to a 1971 partial English translation, "Sens-Plastique has now been a companion of mine for nearly twenty years, and so far as I am concerned, Malcolm de Chazal is much the most original and interesting French writer to emerge since the war".
An unusual presentation to the celebrated French author Simone de Beauvoir, who had been one of the founders of Le Temp Moderne, and whose most significant work, Le Deuxième sexe, was published by Gallimard in 1949. (Inventory #: 368865)