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Jacques Roger Simon (1875-1965) - Holder of numerous medals at the salons, he is a painter of nature, seascapes, Norman bocage, and orientalist works.
Fourth book of the "White Peacock" collection.
Edition limited to 1125 numbered copies. One of the 1090 numbered copies on vellum (n°941)
Paperback, printed tucked cover. In cardboard slipcase - Uncut copy, In excellent fresh condition.
The Cabaret of the Beautiful Woman! A name that made them dream, the hairy ones, weaned from love or quite simply from femininity, throughout the nights of war... But when they succeeded, for once volunteers with a good heart, in order to locate and occupy the position, there was only a pile of rubble and broken tiles. The novelist of Les Croix de bois, one of the classics of the Great War on a par with the masterpieces of Barbusse or E.M. Remarque, tells us here about the war on a daily basis, without bombast. Sometimes humorous, sometimes moved, often disenchanted, Roland Dorgelès is little interested in general ideas, in history with capital letters. He is interested in man, in ordinary humanity, in his miseries, his comicalities, his pettiness and sometimes his greatness. And that is why, after decades, it remains to be read or reread.
"A work of ardent sincerity. I thank Dorgelès for giving us these pages, I hold this noble writer in very high esteem." Marcel Millet
"... A great love dictated to Dorgelès these poignant and cheerful pages, bordering on misery and yet, voluntarily, dream and joy." Christiane Fournier.
Roland Dorgeles; Jacques-Simon
The Cabaret of the Beautiful Woman
Paris, A La Revue Française, 1929
in-8 (20 x 15 cm); 321pp. 2 F.
Subject: Roland Dorgeles ill Jacques Simon Cabaret Belle Femme Poilus Great War num. 1929 67502059
