1967 Scarce Limited First French Edition - Le Nez qui Voque by Réjean Ducharme. #7/35.

(Description)

Author: DUCHARME, Réjean.
Title:  LE NEZ QUI VOQUE.
Language: Text in French.
Publisher: Paris, NRF, Gallimard, 1967. First Edition, scarce #7/35. One of 35 numbered copies on pure Lafuma-Navarre vellum, the only large paper.
Size: 8.5" X 6 ".
Pages: 274 pages.
Binding: Attractive and near fine softcover binding (hinges fine - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover. 
Content: Fine content (bright, tight and clean - as shown).

The book: Scarce Limited First edition, the (#7) of 35 numbered copies on pure Lafuma-Navarre vellum, the only large paper of LE NEZ QUI VOQUE -- a novel by Quebec writer and playwright Réjean Ducharme. Gallimard published it in 1967, a year after the publication of L'Avalée des avalés. This work earned the author the Governor General's Prize and a nomination for the Prix Goncourt. Despite the order of the publications, it is the first novel written by Ducharme.

The author: Réjean Ducharme (August 12, 1941 – August 21, 2017) was a Québécois novelist and playwright who resided in Montreal. He was known for his reclusive personality and did not appear at any public functions since his first successful book was published in 1966. A common theme of his early work was the rejection of the adult world by children.