Anthologie - SIGNED

Paris: GLM. 1960. Anthology of works by the French poet, inscribed by Char to Carine Rueff on the half-title: "Pour Carine Rueff. D'une maison à demi habitée que sa présence éclaire lorsqu'elle la traverse..." No. 829 of 1050. Unopened. 64 pp. Softcover; light shelf wear and toning to the edges. Overall fine. 4 x 6.5 inches (10.2 x 16.3 cm).

The poet René Char published his first book in 1928 and during World War II was active in the French Resistance. Char was a friend and close associate of Albert Camus, Georges Bataille and Maurice Blanchot among writers, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró and Victor Brauner among painters. The composer Pierre Boulez wrote three settings of Char's poetry, Le Soleil des eaux, Le Visage nuptial, and Le Marteau sans maître.

Carine Rueff was the daughter of the economist Jacques Rueff and wife of the publisher Gabriel Milési. Moving in intellectual circles in Paris, she was the dedicatee of poems by Frederick Seidl and others. (15374)

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