LE MARQUIS DE SADE ET LE ROMAN NOIR. ONE OF 195 SIGNED +NUMBERED

Paris: NRF, 1933

2.5 x 14cm, 28pp. Original wrappers. First edition of this essay on the influence of the “divine marquis” on the French novel of the 30s from the acknowledged ‘inventor of Sade’ in the 20th Century, owing to his passionate and tireless scholarly searching out and subsequent re-contextualization of the latter’s oeuvre.

Anecdotally, Heine had made a pact of sorts with Apollinaire to carry out a similar project. However, the poet’s premature death left Heine to his own devices. Throughout the 20’s and 30’s (beyond the aforementioned Sadean pursuits), Heine participated in Surrealist group activities and those of the short-lived ‘Contre-Attaque’ faction.

This is one of 195 signed and numbered copies and has internally one small alteration to the text in Heine’s own hand. Fine.