"P. Mac Orlan - "sous La Lumière Froid" - Limited Edition"
Pierre Mac Orlan (1882-1970) - “Sous la Lumière Froide” Illustrations: Jean Mohler1 volume in-4 (24.5 X 19.5 cm)
paperback, under slipcase
Les Editions De La Nouvelle France - 1943
Limited edition of 950 copies
This one: N° 641 on Vélin de Rives
212 pages
Superb illustrations by Jean Mohler
colored in the Ateliers Georges Duval and colored with a stencil
The book is in very good condition (!)
Only the casing is a little faded ( insolated)…
Pierre Dumarchey, known as Pierre Mac Orlan (1882-1970),
is a French writer Author of an abundant and varied work, he began by writing humorous tales. After the 1st war, his inspiration turned to the fantastic register and the adventure novel.
During his youth in the early years of the 20th century, Mac Orlan lived in Montmartre, where he befriended Guillaume Apollinaire, Francis Carco and Rolland Dorgelès.
The memories he kept of this period, when his means of existence were often precarious, served as material for him to develop a work with strong autobiographical connotations, which influenced, among others, André Malraux, Boris Vian and Raymond Queneau.
Sous la Lumière Froide was published for the first time in 1926 Distinctions: In 1950, while the press evoked the names of Joseph Kessel or Louis Guilloux,
it was Pierre Mac Orlan who was elected, unanimously, member of the Académie Goncourt, to take over the guise of Lucien Descave, who died in September of the previous year Appointed Commander of the Legion of Honor by Prime Minister Georges Pompidou on the proposal of the Minister of Culture André Malraux. Distinction long delayed by the fact that the morality survey conducted beforehand had unearthed the publications of erotic texts written by Mac Orlan at the start of his career. The decoration was finally awarded in 1966.
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