The Triumph of Death. Rendered into English by Allan Ross Macdougall and Alex Comfort. Introduction by Denis de Rougemont.

Ramuz (C.F.)

Published by Routledge, 1946

About this Item

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, colour-printed frontispiece by Edward Burra, a pencil note to Introduction, pp. xvi, 155, crown 8vo, original black cloth lettered in white to backstrip and upper board, contemporary ownership inscription to flyleaf and bookseller ticket to front pastedown, dustjacket with a design by Edward Burra, price-clipped, slightly chipped, nicked and rubbed at extremities, very good. Macdougall's translation of the Swiss author's 1925 novel had been published, with the title 'The End of All Men', in the US the year before, but his translation from the French is here revised by Alex Comfort and with the addition of designs by Edward Burra. Ramuz was one of the major Swiss authors of the century; this novel 'tells of the irruption of a great universal catastrophe in the everyday life of common men and women' (blurb) - an event made ever more relevant to British and American readers, as Rougemont's introduction contextualises, by the recently concluded War.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Triumph of Death. Rendered into English by Allan Ross Macdougall and Alex Comfort. Introduction by Denis de Rougemont.
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 1946
• Seller catalogs:
  • Modern First Edition