![]() ![]() The two original drawings by Cocteau which are tipped into the present volume are close in style and subject to the homoerotic lithographs that illustrate this edition, suggesting that they were preparatory sketches. ![]() Querelle de Brest was issued in both illustrated and unillustrated editions in 1947. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH TWO ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY COCTEAU. ![]() LIMITED TO 525 COPIES 'STRICTEMENT HORS-COMMERCE', THIS NUMBER 393 OF 460 ON VéLIN à LA FORME. Contemporary half black crushed morocco gilt, lettered in gilt on the spine, original printed wrappers after Cocteau bound in, top edge gilt, others uncut (extremities a little rubbed, small scuffmark on spine).įIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Anyone who hasn’t experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing of ecstasy at all. ![]() Two original brush-and-ink drawings by Cocteau tipped onto a postliminary flyleaf, both folded, the first 315 x 239mm, the second 318 x 242mm. One-page letterpress leaf beginning 'Une brusque lassitude. Lithographic frontispiece and 28 plates by and after Cocteau, title border after Cocteau, initial printed in red. Thus the novel offers a vision of homosexuality situated squarely within the defining moral paradigm of the time (Christianity) in an era when homosexuality. COCTEAU, Jean (1889-1963, artist) and Jean GENET (1910-1986). Genet was, of course, a product of his time and, as such, Querelle of Brest reflects the predominant assumptions of mid 20 th-century France, whether directly or inverted as in a mirror. ![]()
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