Lorrain Jean / Dupuis Géo

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Lorrain Jean / Dupuis Géo
MONSIEUR DE PHOCAS - New edition, published in Paris, at the Librairie Paul Ollendorff, in 1901. Covered in a blue half cloth binding with smooth spine and original covers illustrated in colour by Géo. Dupuis have been preserved. A fairly well-preserved copy: usual rubbing on the head covers. Play in the hinge. The first cover plate and the title page are almost detached. Pages a little yellowed with some light freckles. Monsieur de Phocas (subtitled Astarté) is a novel by Jean Lorrain, a French writer of the Belle Époque, published in 1901. Monsieur de Phocas is a key novel, echoing the literary and artistic practices of its time. We can guess the figures of the time, like so many ghostly and disguised celebrities. The two main characters in the novel, the Duke of Fréneuse and the painter Claudius Ethal, are inspired by celebrities of the time: Robert de Montesquiou, from whom Lorrain takes up the tics and vices to create the Duke of Fréneuse; Whistler, who shares Ethal's taste for the theatrical and the sartorial, and Oscar Wilde, from whom he takes his horror dimension.
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