FRANCE, Anatole; Sylvain Sauvage [Illustrator].
The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard.
“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another”: The Limited Editions Club Edition of Anatole France; signed by illustrator Sylvain Sauvage and Finely Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1937.
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The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of Anatole France's first novel. Quarto, bound in full modern morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe / Zaehnsdorf with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, all edges gilt, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, frontispiece, with water-color illustrations. Boldly signed by illustrator Sylvain Sauvage on the colophon page at the rear. One of 1,500 numbered copies, this is number 641. In near fine condition with sunning to the spine. Translated by Lafcadio Hearn. Introduction by A.S.W. Rosenbach. Illustrated by Sylvain Sauvage.
Anatole France was a French poet, journalist, and novelist. He was a successful novelist, with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Académie française, and won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements, characterized as they are by a nobility of style, a profound human sympathy, grace, and a true Gallic temperament". The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (1881) is a quietly ironic novel that explores the tension between intellectual life and moral action through the character of an elderly scholar whose greatest transgression is an act of compassion. France uses Bonnard’s gentle humor and introspective voice to critique the rigidity of legal and social institutions, highlighting instead the value of empathy, conscience, and human connection. Though titled with deliberate irony, the “crime” committed is not a legal offense but a subversion of formal authority in favor of personal ethics.
The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard.
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