Camille curiosities

[amie-de-rimbaud.livejournal.com]

I just wanted to share two interesting Camille books I recently acquired for my collection (one benefit of perusing eBay.fr instead of studying). I was happy to find them, and I thought you guys would also appreciate their old, moldy wonderfulness.

The first is his unedited (selected...if only it were complete!) ‘Correspondance,’ published in 1836, first edition (according to the seller). I actually just picked this up at the post office today, so I haven’t examined it very closely yet. I’ll be sure to convey/translate any letters of special interest.

The second is ‘Camille Desmoulins, Tragedy’ by Pierre Duzéa, published in 1894. I was especially interested in this, having never seen it before. My efforts to find information on Duzéa have been futile, so I guess he was pretty obscure. If anyone could tell me anything about it, that would be great.

Again, I haven’t had much time to give this a thorough reading; superficial observations don’t support any remarkable literary merit. But as I happen to be particularly interested in 19th c. representations of the Revolution, I’ll eventually give it a much closer look and report back with better details/insight.

Maybe I’ll translate an excerpt in honor of April 5th!