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SARTRE Jean-Paul (1905-1980).

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SARTRE Jean-Paul (1905-1980).
"Saint Genet comedian and martyr". Paris: Gallimard, 1932. 71 plates, each with 8 pages in-8 (252 x 167 mm). Some soiling and small stains, some tears in the margins and at the folds.



COMPLETE PROOFS CORRECTED BY SARTRE OF THIS TEXT PUBLISHED IN 1952.

This text, a psychoanalytical biography, constitutes a preface to the Complete Works of Jean Genet. In addition to the typographical corrections, Sartre makes numerous substantial corrections, deleting parts of the text and adding entire passages. It is very probably the very last proofs, the published text presents only some tiny variations.