Die Untrüglichen
by Chris Marker
€325,00
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Frankfurt am Main: Verlag der Frankfurter Hefte, 1951. First German edition. 8vo (20x13cm), original black cloth in sealed mylar illustrated dust jacket. 208pp. Top stained blue. Text in German. Slightly cocked, with mylar glued to dust jacket flaps. Mild soiling to mylar and mild rubbing to corners. 4cm closed tear at rear flap with tiny dedication in blue ink at back pastedown. Internally clean and sound. Near fine in a very good, dust jacket.
The first German edition of Chris Marker’s novel Le Cœur Net, was translated by Walter Maria Guggenheimer and published in 1951 by Verlag der Frankfurter Hefte. Guggenheimer was a member of the editorial board of the literary magazine Frankfurter Hefte, which was the German equivalent of the French journal Esprit.
The publisher blurb on the front flap of the dust jacket claims:
“Der junge Franzose Chris Marker senkt das Lot bis auf den festen Grund; spricht er für eine Generation, der die ausweglose Wahrheit ein ersehnteres Abenteuer wäre als eine weiterhinkende Lüge? Die ihr eigenes Maß im Anspruch an sich selbst fände? Auch die deutsche Jugend stellt das ungewöhnliche Buch vor diese Frage.”
An extremely scarce copy with the original dust jacket from Marker’s first and only novel.