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BOREL (Pétrus). Champavert, immoral tales. Bruxelles, J. Blanche, 1872. In-8, XXXVI-334 pp. Half blond calf, spine ribbed, green mar. title page, date on tail, gilt head (contemporary binding). A fine copy with full margins of this second edition, illustrated with a fine etching frontispiece by Adrien AUBRY depicting a portrait of Pétrus Borel le Lycanthrope printed on Chine and an illustration by Gigoux et Garnier printed on Hollande out of the text. Minor scattered foxing. "Champavert, contes immoraux, contrary to what the subtitle suggests, offers more macabre and violent scenes than immoral situations. At least, what's striking here is the pathological nature of the stories. The high point is reached in the cruel tale entitled Don André Vésalius, l'anatomiste, where horror defies reason. It's safe to assume that Villiers de l'Isle-Adam read it with a passion."" Jean-Baptiste Baronian, Panorama de la littérature fantastique de langue française, p. 43. A whimsical, tormented character, a fierce republican, the soul of the Petit-Cénacle, a journalist, a colonial administrator and a cursed poet, Petrus Borel was sometimes reviled, sometimes praised, notably posthumously by André Breton and the Surrealists, who judged his works to be frenetic and revolutionary, and helped bring him out of the oblivion into which he had fallen (Vicaire I, 864).

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BOREL (Pétrus). Champavert, immoral tales. Bruxelles, J. Blanche, 1872. In-8, XXXVI-334 pp. Half blond calf, spine ribbed, green mar. title page, date on tail, gilt head (contemporary binding). A fine copy with full margins of this second edition, illustrated with a fine etching frontispiece by Adrien AUBRY depicting a portrait of Pétrus Borel le Lycanthrope printed on Chine and an illustration by Gigoux et Garnier printed on Hollande out of the text. Minor scattered foxing. "Champavert, contes immoraux, contrary to what the subtitle suggests, offers more macabre and violent scenes than immoral situations. At least, what's striking here is the pathological nature of the stories. The high point is reached in the cruel tale entitled Don André Vésalius, l'anatomiste, where horror defies reason. It's safe to assume that Villiers de l'Isle-Adam read it with a passion."" Jean-Baptiste Baronian, Panorama de la littérature fantastique de langue française, p. 43. A whimsical, tormented character, a fierce republican, the soul of the Petit-Cénacle, a journalist, a colonial administrator and a cursed poet, Petrus Borel was sometimes reviled, sometimes praised, notably posthumously by André Breton and the Surrealists, who judged his works to be frenetic and revolutionary, and helped bring him out of the oblivion into which he had fallen (Vicaire I, 864).

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