BECK Christian Lot n° 22

BECK Christian RARE COPY ON HOLLANDE Ce qui a été sera ou Adam battu et content - Farce, suivie de Hercule à Lerne, les Simulachres de la Vie et L'Amoureuse absence Brussels, Georges Balat, 1898 Small folio. Paperback. Cover soiled. Spine with tears, detached from body of volume. First 2 blank pages unstuck. Fresh interior with very wide margins. Original edition dedicated to James Ensor. One of the very few copies (edition of 10 ?) on Hollande (n°9 for Monsieur Brauen). Very close to Mercure writers such as Valéry, de Tinan, de Régnier and above all Jarry, with whom he eventually fell out, Christian Beck, Belgian poet and writer, left his mark on fin-de-siècle literary circles, so much so that Gide would draw inspiration from him much later when shaping the character of Lucien Bercail in his novel "Les Faux-Monnayeurs". He is the father of writer Béatrix Beck, author of "Léon Morin, prêtre". Among other works, he contributed to the famous special issue of "La Plume" devoted to James Ensor (1898).