Une Grossesse
LACROIX Jules.
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Add to basketParis: Eugène Renduel (impr. Veuve Poussin), 1833. - In-8, 135 x 223, frontispice, 415 pp. Demi-maroquin bleu marine à coins, dos à nerfs, tête dorée, non rogné (Allô).
Édition originale dédiée par l'auteur à son frère Paul Lacroix plus connu sous le pseudonyme du Bibliophile Jacob.Une Grossesse est un roman de m?urs percutant, loin des clichés littéraires de son époque. L'auteur y aborde sans complaisance l'adultère et ses conséquences, en peignant le drame d'un vieillard trahi, dont la douleur se mue en une vengeance implacable. À travers des personnages profondément humains - le mari trompé, l'épouse infidèle, le séducteur puni -, Lacroix crée une ?uvre émouvante et morale, où la tragédie familiale devient le miroir d'une société en crise.Son style, à la fois vigoureux et nuancé, tranche avec la littérature frivole de l'époque. Ce roman, marquant par sa sincérité et sa force dramatique, révèle un auteur engagé, capable de redonner une dimension éthique au genre romanesque.
L'auteur s'adresse à son frère dans une émouvante préface où il confesse vouloir « faire, pour ainsi dire, l'anatomie d'un c?ur de père, en remuer les fibres les plus secrètes, les plus sensibles ». Il ajoute que c'est « dans tes livres que je peux apprendre à nouer solidement une action, sans jamais en embrouiller le fil, à créer de ces caractères, types en naissant, qui reflètent leur époque? ».
L'édition est illustrée en frontispice d'une lithographie originale de Jean Gigoux sur papier de chine collé. Elle représente M. D'Escas étranglant sa femme Léontine après avoir appris qu'il n'était pas le père de l'enfant qu'ils ont eu.
Bon exemplaire relié par Allô.
Dos habilement reteinté.
Provenances : Étienne Cluzel, écrivain et bibliophile français, avec son ex-libris. - Ex-libris volant, non identifié, imprimé sur papier japon superfin représentant le monogramme MMC sur un échantillon de bobine de film. - Monogramme HL cerclé d'un filet noir sur la première garde.
Bibliographie : Vicaire IV, 809. - Champfleury p. 363.
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