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MAUCLAIR Camille (1872 - 1945)

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MAUCLAIR Camille (1872 - 1945)
MANUSCRIT autograph signed "Camille Mauclair", La Vie humiliée de Henri Heine, 1929| 354 ff. in-4 (edges frayed on a few ff.), in half leather jacket (worn).
Complete manuscript of this study on HEINE published in 1930.
"In the same period, almost at the same dates, Henri Heine formed, with Edgar Poe and Charles Baudelaire, a trio of "cursed poets".
No insult has been spared them"... After the Foreword, twelve chapters make up the text: childhood and adolescence| student life from 1816 to 1822| student life from 1823 to 1826| apostasy and the visit to Goethe| The Book of Songs| before leaving for Paris| the beginnings in Paris, the Saint-Simonian crisis| life in Paris until 1835| the period of the pamphlets| the trip to Germany| the period of shame| the martyrdom On the title page, Camille Mauclair dedicated the manuscript to his wife: "To you, Suzanne, my dearest wife, who sings so admirably the Poet's Loves, I give this text where I have told with impartiality the faults and the greatness of this "outlaw" of genius"...