L'Annonce faite a Marie (edition augmentee d'une variante pour la scene d l'acte IV).

Paris, France Editions Gallimard: Le Livre de Poche , 1940. Paperback Very Good+ in Wraps: shows the very mildest rubbing to the panels and there is a very faint crease near the lower corner of the rear panel; the expected light tanning to the text pages, due to aging; a single page has been turned down at the upper corner; a few water droplet spots to the yellow-tinted fore-edge; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creases to the backstrip. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing a couple of very minor imperfections. Bright and clean. Not far from 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo.(6.5 x 4.3 x 0.6 inches),. 241 pages. Language: French. Weight: 5 ounces. Mass Market Paperback. Paul Claudel (1868 – 1955) was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholicism. Claudel was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in six different years.Among the most famous of his plays, L'Annonce faite à Marie ("The Tidings Brought to Mary", 1910) focuses on the themes of sacrifice, oblation and sanctification through the tale of a young medieval French peasant woman who contracts leprosy. Claudel wrote in a unique verse style. He rejected traditional metrics in favour of long, luxuriant, unrhymed lines of free verse, the so-called 'verset claudelien', influenced by the Latin psalms of the Vulgate. His language and imagery was often lush, mystical, exhilarating, consciously 'poetical'; the settings of his plays tended to be romantically distant, medieval France or sixteenth-century Spanish South America, yet spiritually all-encompassing, transcending the level of material realism. He used scenes of passionate, obsessive human love to convey with great power God's infinite love for humanity.