[RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE (Nicolas Edme)] - Lot 710

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[RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE (Nicolas Edme)] - Lot 710
[RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE (Nicolas Edme)] La dernière avanture d'un homme de quarante-cinq ans; nouvelle utile à plus d'un lecteur. Geneva, Regnault, 1783. 2 volumes in-12; illustrated with 4 plates (including 2 frontispieces) out of text by Binet engraved by Giraud l''aîné and Pauque. Contemporary marbled fawn calf, ornate smooth spines, red title-pieces, fawn tomaisons, cold fillets framing the boards, gilt fillet on the edges, marbled edges. Rare first edition. The work is composed as a diary. Rétif tells here the story of his passion for Sara, a young neighbor of eighteen years. This work tells the difficulty to break up as much as it describes the happiness and the torments of love. Rétif knew how to express jealousy, the illusion of love, the mirage of love, always disappointed and always reborn. It is also the brutal awareness of old age, of the body that ceases to be desirable: the end of a career as a seducer. This very beautiful novel, of a remarkable narrative sobriety, melancholic and never moralizing, an ode to youth and lost love.
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