CHESTOV, LÉON. 1866-1938.
La Philosophie de la tragédie. Dostoïewsky et Nietzsche. Paris: J. Schiffrin, 1926.
8vo. [4], xix, [1], 250, [1] pp. Translated by B. de Schloezer. Original printed wrappers, glassine. Slight lean, few pencil annotations, very good.
PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication: "A mon cher ami Jules de Pauleur en souvenir do nos [?] philosophiques / Paris / 30-12-1926 / L. Chestov." Chestov came to Paris in 1920 and taught at the Sorbonne until his death in 1938. The present proto-existentialist study was first published in Russia in 1903.
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