SENANCOUR (Étienne de). On the present generations.... - Lot 42 - Ader

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SENANCOUR (Étienne de). On the present generations.... - Lot 42 - Ader
SENANCOUR (Étienne de). On the present generations. Human absurdities. Dreamer of the Alps. Paris [Neuchâtel : Louis Fauche Borel], The year 1793 of the Christian era. -In-8, spotted tan calf, smooth spine decorated, spotted edges (period binding). Monglond, II, 952. very rare first edition of this essay by the writer Étienne de Senancour (1770-1846) . It is the second work of the author, published, like the previous one, under the pseudonym of the "Rêveur des Alpes". Senancour was only 23 years old when he published it. Addressing the painful absurdities of the present, the author takes up in part the themes he had already addressed in his first work entitled Les premiers âges, which dealt with the uncertainties of youth. He shows a great skepticism, wanting to flee a present which overwhelms and disgusts him, revolting in particular against the traditional religion, narrow-minded and hypocritical in his eyes. According to Monglond, this edition was printed in Neuchâtel and not in Paris. It is so rare that it escaped most bibliographers, including Joachim Merlant, author of the "Bibliographie de Senancour" published in 1905. Very damaged binding, the hinge of the first plate is cracked and fragile, and the second plate is cracked . Headbands faded, spine ends missing, corners dulled. The title piece has been removed. Some foxing inside. The quires O and Q have been interchanged.
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