Beatrix Beck [Prix Goncourt 1952] - Léon Morin / prêtre

Béatrix Beck Léon Morin, priest Paris, Gallimard, Collection Blanche, February 1952 (for the print run of the first edition; general sale on March 28, 1952). In-12 (120 x 190 mm), 237 pages, [1] leaf, Paperback, cream cover printed in red and black One of 60 copies on Lafuma-Navarre pure rag paper, the sole large paper edition, here no. 47. Goncourt Prize 1952. Very good condition. During the Occupation in a provincial city, Barny, a young widow, atheist and communist activist, decides out of provocation to enter a confessional to challenge a priest. There she meets Léon Morin, a young, intellectual, free and disconcerting cleric. Instead of a moralistic confrontation, an intense and ambiguous spiritual dialogue develops between them, blending sexual unrest and the search for faith.

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