Octave MIRBEAU.
Le Journal d'une femme de chambre. Paris, Eugène Fasquelle, 1900.
In-12: half parma leather in the Bradel style with corners, smooth spine decorated with a gilt fleuron, untrimmed, gilt head, cover and spine kept (Champs).
First edition: one of the few author's copies on daffodil paper.
"Mirbeau is a knight of apocalypse and his Journal d'une femme de chambre the most implacable novel of social undress of the Dreyfus era" (Jean-François Nivet).
A black and almost nihilistic novel, Célestine's Diary is a violent indictment of the bourgeoisie and moral hypocrisy: it paints an uncompromising picture of the (alleged)
Belle Époque.
A fine copy. Spine unstained.
