Constant, Benjamin. LE CAHIER ROUGE / MA VIE. Amsterdam: A. A. Balkema, 1945. Octavo, softcover bound in printed gray wrappers in the original glassine dust wrapper. The spine is darkened with the extremities slightly darkened. 84 pages, partially unopened. Illustrated with a full-page portrait drawing with a tissue guard. Near fine.
"Le Cahier Rouge" [The Red Notebook], by Benjamin Constant, the author of "Adolphe" and "Cecile", is the "elegant and cynical memoirs of his youth...His autobiographical works provide a glimpse of Constant himself, a curious blend of intellect and emotion, classicism and romanticism, trying to understand himself..,.Constant's works continue to speak to the modern conscience." [Dolbow, "The Dictionary of Modern French Literature: From the Age of Reason through Realism" pp. 67-68].
The book label of Monroe Wheeler, former Director of Exhibitions and Publications at the Museum of Modern Art, is mounted on the half-title.
The text is in French.
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