{"title":"Guy de Maupassant","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"les-romanciers-naturalistes","title":"Les romanciers naturalistes","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eZOLA, Émile. Les romanciers naturalistes.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eParis, Charpentier,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/span\u003e1881.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn-8 (187 x 121 mm), (3) ff., II-387 pp., (1) f.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePaperback, modern folder and slipcase.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition on publisher's paper, after 10 on Chine and 10 on Hollande.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExtremely rare autograph letter from the author ‘to Guy de Maupassant \/ his friend \/ Emile Zola’.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIt was in 1872, after publishing ‘Le lendemain de la crise’ (The day after the crisis) in Le Corsaire and causing a political scandal, that Émile Zola, in a difficult moral and financial situation, met Ivan Tourgueniev (1818-1883). Tourgueniev offered him a job writing for the famous Russian magazine Les Messagers de l'Europe. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHe published some of his articles in Le Roman expérimental (1880) but soon decided to publish them in a single volume in the present work in order to \"give a history of the naturalist novel [...]. Only today does it take on its true meaning, its exact value\". (preface by Zola)\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublished in 1881, Les Romanciers naturalistes is Émile Zola's major critical manifesto. In it, the author brought together texts devoted to the writers he considered to be the pillars - or heralds - of naturalism: Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert, the Goncourt brothers, Daudet...\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThrough these portraits and analyses, Zola maps out a new literature, one that is scientific, documentary and rooted in reality. He affirmed his desire to create a school, to gather around him writers who would make the novel an instrument of knowledge and social reform.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIt was this work, then, that clarified the aesthetic issues of naturalism and established Zola as the leader of the eponymous school.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA protégé of Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) and revealed by Zola with the publication of Boule de Suif in Les soirées de Médan, Maupassant quickly became his most loyal, and then his most talented, comrade-in-arms. This led to a literary partnership, with Maupassant borrowing from Zola the clinical observation of alienation in his writings, just as he borrowed from Flaubert his hatred of human stupidity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eConsignments to Guy de Maupassant are extremely rare; in 2021, a copy of Nana (1880) dedicated by Zola to Maupassant sold for $32,500 at Christie's New York.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFine restoration to the spine and scattered brown spots for this unique piece of nineteenth-century literary history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVicaire, VII, 354 ; Benhamou Noëlle. Maupassant dans le Journal des Goncourt. In: Cahiers Edmond et Jules de Goncourt n°10, 2003. Les cent ans du premier prix Goncourt. pp. 283-304.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Librairie Alexis Noqué","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54954579165509,"sku":"0566","price":9500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0793\/8611\/6421\/files\/IMG_9129_1.jpg?v=1750281761"},{"product_id":"la-maison-d-un-artiste","title":"La maison d’un Artiste","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGONCOURT (de), Edmond. La maison d’un Artiste.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eParis: Charpentier, 1881.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOctavo (187 × 122 mm). Two volumes. Vol. I: (4) ff., 357 pp., (1) f.; Vol. II: (2) ff., 382 pp., (1) f.\u003cbr data-end=\"455\" data-start=\"452\"\u003eOriginal printed wrappers, modern chemise and slipcase.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong data-end=\"593\" data-start=\"512\"\u003eFirst edition, on standard paper, after 10 copies on Chine and 50 on Holland.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-end=\"596\" data-start=\"593\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-end=\"692\" data-start=\"596\"\u003eExtraordinarily rare presentation copy inscribed by Edmond de Goncourt to Guy de Maupassant:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-end=\"695\" data-start=\"692\"\u003e\u003cem data-end=\"750\" data-start=\"695\"\u003e“à Guy de Maupassant \/ souvenir amical \/ Ed Goncourt”\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1079\" data-start=\"753\"\u003eGuy de Maupassant (1850–1893) is mentioned \u003cstrong data-end=\"809\" data-start=\"796\"\u003e167 times\u003c\/strong\u003e in the \u003cem data-end=\"839\" data-start=\"817\"\u003eJournal des Goncourt\u003c\/em\u003e: “a small number if one considers the importance given to other contemporaries and the twenty years of his presence in the \u003cem data-end=\"972\" data-start=\"963\"\u003eJournal\u003c\/em\u003e; yet it seems too many when one reads Edmond’s bitter reflections on the author of \u003cem data-end=\"1065\" data-start=\"1056\"\u003eBel-Ami\u003c\/em\u003e.” (Benhamou).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1517\" data-start=\"1081\"\u003ePublished in 1881, \u003cem data-end=\"1124\" data-start=\"1100\"\u003eLa Maison d’un artiste\u003c\/em\u003e describes Edmond de Goncourt’s celebrated “house-museum” in Auteuil. Far more than a catalogue of objects, the work forms an \u003cstrong data-end=\"1280\" data-start=\"1250\"\u003eintellectual self-portrait\u003c\/strong\u003e and an \u003cstrong data-end=\"1307\" data-start=\"1288\"\u003eaesthetic credo\u003c\/strong\u003e, an attempt to preserve through prose what his private museum could not eternise. It is a text suspended in time, blending the spirit of the nineteenth-century cabinet of curiosities with a modern sensibility.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1883\" data-start=\"1519\"\u003eThrough his descriptions of paintings, prints, textiles, sculptures, and books, Goncourt evokes a particular vision of the nineteenth century—delicate, Japoniste, enamoured of refinement. The work naturally extends the \u003cem data-end=\"1747\" data-start=\"1738\"\u003eJournal\u003c\/em\u003e written with his brother Jules: the same acuity, precision, and determination to preserve a threatened elegance are present throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"2073\" data-start=\"1885\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-end=\"1946\" data-start=\"1885\"\u003ePresentation copies to Maupassant are exceptionally rare.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-end=\"1949\" data-start=\"1946\"\u003eFor comparison, a copy of \u003cem data-end=\"1981\" data-start=\"1975\"\u003eNana\u003c\/em\u003e (1880) inscribed by Zola to Maupassant realised \u003cstrong data-end=\"2041\" data-start=\"2030\"\u003e$32,500\u003c\/strong\u003e at Christie’s New York in 2021.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"2256\" data-start=\"2075\"\u003eThis is \u003cstrong data-end=\"2116\" data-start=\"2083\"\u003eMaupassant’s own working copy\u003c\/strong\u003e, which he used in preparing his article “Maison d’artiste”, published in \u003cem data-end=\"2202\" data-start=\"2190\"\u003eLe Gaulois\u003c\/em\u003e on 12 March 1881 to coincide with the book’s release.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"2366\" data-start=\"2258\"\u003eGoncourt’s book inspired some of Maupassant’s finest descriptive criticism; a few excerpts from his article:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"2468\" data-start=\"2370\"\u003e“It is not a philosophical work like \u003cem data-end=\"2428\" data-start=\"2407\"\u003eIdées et sensations\u003c\/em\u003e; it is the history of his furniture.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"2579\" data-start=\"2471\"\u003e“He possesses today the most beautiful and the most complete collection of eighteenth-century French art.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"2670\" data-start=\"2582\"\u003e“From the moment one enters, one knows one is in the house of a lover of curiosities.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"2992\" data-start=\"2673\"\u003e“The walls everywhere are lined with books, precious books, of which he gives us the detailed catalogue. In the drawers lie priceless Japanese albums worth fortunes. He was perhaps the first to understand the artistic value, the grace, and the charm of this Japanese art from which our painters now draw inspiration.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"3139\" data-start=\"2995\"\u003e“Next to the room displaying these marvels is another, a masterpiece of colour… a ‘means of inspiration’, the cabinet of cerebral excitation.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"3346\" data-start=\"3142\"\u003e“The ground floor belongs to the eighteenth century. The collection is unique… Here are Watteau, that master among the greatest, Boucher, Fragonard, Chardin… A priceless mantelpiece garniture by Clodion.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"3497\" data-start=\"3348\"\u003eSkillfully restored spines; scattered foxing. A \u003cstrong data-end=\"3437\" data-start=\"3396\"\u003eunique and important association copy\u003c\/strong\u003e, central to the literary history of the nineteenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"3683\" data-start=\"3499\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-end=\"3514\" data-start=\"3499\"\u003eReferences:\u003c\/strong\u003e Vicaire III, 1061–2; Carteret I, 359;\u0026nbsp;Benhamou, Noëlle, “Maupassant dans le \u003cem data-end=\"3615\" data-start=\"3593\"\u003eJournal des Goncourt\u003c\/em\u003e,” \u003cem data-end=\"3655\" data-start=\"3618\"\u003eCahiers Edmond et Jules de Goncourt\u003c\/em\u003e no. 10 (2003), pp. 283–304.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Librairie Alexis Noqué","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54954587521349,"sku":"0567","price":7500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0793\/8611\/6421\/files\/IMG_9132.jpg?v=1750281837"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.librairie-alexisnoque.fr\/en\/collections\/provenance-guy-de-maupassant.oembed","provider":"Librairie Alexis Noqué","version":"1.0","type":"link"}