Foreign Bodies by Jean Cayrol (Hardcover First Edition)
Published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1960
Sewn bound hardcover
First printing
183 pages
8.5x6 inches
First edition. Near Fine book in a Good+ dust jacket (some creases and some chips to top and bottom of spine). Comes in removable protective Brodart mylar cover.
Very rare first edition of Foreign Bodies by Jean Cayrol, who wrote Alain Resnais’ Night and Fog and Muriel, or the Time of Return.
Foreign Bodies is a story of man’s mendacity to man. Can man survive his moments of crisis without illusion, without self-deception? Only Gaspard, Cayrol’s solitary hero, can answer, and his quest for his “true” self is, after all, the quest of every man. It is Gaspard’s memory that fills the pages of this remarkable novel, and if his memory is sometimes inaccurate, does it make any difference? Cannot a man tell little lies in telling his story, to fill in the gaps, to make it all come out? It is, Gaspard tells himself, just little things and, as long as the big pieces of the story are true… But are they?
Published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1960
Sewn bound hardcover
First printing
183 pages
8.5x6 inches
First edition. Near Fine book in a Good+ dust jacket (some creases and some chips to top and bottom of spine). Comes in removable protective Brodart mylar cover.
Very rare first edition of Foreign Bodies by Jean Cayrol, who wrote Alain Resnais’ Night and Fog and Muriel, or the Time of Return.
Foreign Bodies is a story of man’s mendacity to man. Can man survive his moments of crisis without illusion, without self-deception? Only Gaspard, Cayrol’s solitary hero, can answer, and his quest for his “true” self is, after all, the quest of every man. It is Gaspard’s memory that fills the pages of this remarkable novel, and if his memory is sometimes inaccurate, does it make any difference? Cannot a man tell little lies in telling his story, to fill in the gaps, to make it all come out? It is, Gaspard tells himself, just little things and, as long as the big pieces of the story are true… But are they?
Published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1960
Sewn bound hardcover
First printing
183 pages
8.5x6 inches
First edition. Near Fine book in a Good+ dust jacket (some creases and some chips to top and bottom of spine). Comes in removable protective Brodart mylar cover.
Very rare first edition of Foreign Bodies by Jean Cayrol, who wrote Alain Resnais’ Night and Fog and Muriel, or the Time of Return.
Foreign Bodies is a story of man’s mendacity to man. Can man survive his moments of crisis without illusion, without self-deception? Only Gaspard, Cayrol’s solitary hero, can answer, and his quest for his “true” self is, after all, the quest of every man. It is Gaspard’s memory that fills the pages of this remarkable novel, and if his memory is sometimes inaccurate, does it make any difference? Cannot a man tell little lies in telling his story, to fill in the gaps, to make it all come out? It is, Gaspard tells himself, just little things and, as long as the big pieces of the story are true… But are they?
