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PROUST Marcel (1871-1922)
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PROUST Marcel (1871-1922)
- Sodome et Gomorrhe II (Paris, Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue
Française, 1922)| 3 vols. in-8, bound in midnight blue morocco with double framing of gilt and cold fillets on the boards, spines with 5 nerves and boxes of fillets, linings and midnight blue morocco with double framing of gilt and cold fillets, midnight blue moire endpapers, covers and spines preserved, gilt edges, slipcases (Gruel)| slight spotting on the boards.
First edition on publisher's paper.
Very nice autograph letter from Proust to his friend Horace FINALY, early April 1922, on the entire title page of volume I.
"Dear Horace, I would have liked so much to shake your hand today. It has been materially - I mean physically - impossible for me. I do not like to mix literature with a painful memory that is alive in me. But since your dear wife, on the one unforgettable occasion when I saw her, was kind enough to tell me that she loved my works, I send you the volume which appears today - with the faithful and constant affection which is overshadowed by the all too vivid memory of her whom you mourn so touchingly. Your grateful friend Marcel Proust."
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RENAN Ernest (1823-1892)
AUTOGRAPHIC MANUSCRIT, [The Experimental Method in Religion, 1879]| 9 pages in-4, with erasures and corrections.
Working manuscript of this important study on the history of religions.
This text, which has numerous erasures and corrections, appeared untitled as the introduction to Part II "Christianity" of Volume III Religion of the English publication The Hundred Greatest
Men. Portraits of the one hundred greatest men of history (London, 1879)| it was collected, under the title La Méthode expérimentale en religion, at the head of Nouvelles Études d'histoire religieuse (Calmann
Lévy, 1884)]. All the great religions of the world began in Asia. Even recently, sects have shown their vivacity (Babism), and it would be possible to see "great religious cyclones, species of Islam, substituting a new Koran for that of Mohammed": "A man who knew Arabic well enough to write in beautiful style a book which would claim to represent the religion of Adam, could see it adopted by the tribes near Syria. It would be very easy to make these tribes, whose condition has not changed for 1200 years, accept that Mohammed was a great man for having recovered the religion of Abraham, which is excellent for the descendants of Abraham, but that the religion of Adam is far superior, since it applies to all of Adam's posterity, that is to say, to all of humanity. A firework display on the mountain of Safet, supported by a few million people, could easily be taken as the appearance of the Messiah... And to tell an anecdote about the Persian who almost founded a religion with the motto Liberty, Equality, Fraternity...
He juxtaposes the aptitude of the Asians to create religions with the torpor of the Europeans, speaks of the so-called pagan religions, of Indo-European mythology, of Celtic druidism and of Christianity which, so pure at its origins, absorbed the superstitions of the Celtic and Italic races and became "a true paganism"... He compares the saints of the Norman and Breton chapels to the "innumerable Gallic gods", with similar functions: it is to believe that, "in the deep layers of the people, religion has changed little"...
- Sodome et Gomorrhe II (Paris, Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue
Française, 1922)| 3 vols. in-8, bound in midnight blue morocco with double framing of gilt and cold fillets on the boards, spines with 5 nerves and boxes of fillets, linings and midnight blue morocco with double framing of gilt and cold fillets, midnight blue moire endpapers, covers and spines preserved, gilt edges, slipcases (Gruel)| slight spotting on the boards.
First edition on publisher's paper.
Very nice autograph letter from Proust to his friend Horace FINALY, early April 1922, on the entire title page of volume I.
"Dear Horace, I would have liked so much to shake your hand today. It has been materially - I mean physically - impossible for me. I do not like to mix literature with a painful memory that is alive in me. But since your dear wife, on the one unforgettable occasion when I saw her, was kind enough to tell me that she loved my works, I send you the volume which appears today - with the faithful and constant affection which is overshadowed by the all too vivid memory of her whom you mourn so touchingly. Your grateful friend Marcel Proust."
3,000/4,000 274
RENAN Ernest (1823-1892)
AUTOGRAPHIC MANUSCRIT, [The Experimental Method in Religion, 1879]| 9 pages in-4, with erasures and corrections.
Working manuscript of this important study on the history of religions.
This text, which has numerous erasures and corrections, appeared untitled as the introduction to Part II "Christianity" of Volume III Religion of the English publication The Hundred Greatest
Men. Portraits of the one hundred greatest men of history (London, 1879)| it was collected, under the title La Méthode expérimentale en religion, at the head of Nouvelles Études d'histoire religieuse (Calmann
Lévy, 1884)]. All the great religions of the world began in Asia. Even recently, sects have shown their vivacity (Babism), and it would be possible to see "great religious cyclones, species of Islam, substituting a new Koran for that of Mohammed": "A man who knew Arabic well enough to write in beautiful style a book which would claim to represent the religion of Adam, could see it adopted by the tribes near Syria. It would be very easy to make these tribes, whose condition has not changed for 1200 years, accept that Mohammed was a great man for having recovered the religion of Abraham, which is excellent for the descendants of Abraham, but that the religion of Adam is far superior, since it applies to all of Adam's posterity, that is to say, to all of humanity. A firework display on the mountain of Safet, supported by a few million people, could easily be taken as the appearance of the Messiah... And to tell an anecdote about the Persian who almost founded a religion with the motto Liberty, Equality, Fraternity...
He juxtaposes the aptitude of the Asians to create religions with the torpor of the Europeans, speaks of the so-called pagan religions, of Indo-European mythology, of Celtic druidism and of Christianity which, so pure at its origins, absorbed the superstitions of the Celtic and Italic races and became "a true paganism"... He compares the saints of the Norman and Breton chapels to the "innumerable Gallic gods", with similar functions: it is to believe that, "in the deep layers of the people, religion has changed little"...