SIGNED! 1972, Michelle Arade, Barbe de Soie, First Edition

Description

Michelle Arade

Barbe de Soie 

Published by Julliard Paris in 1972

Original Soft Binding

First Edition

p. 149 + 4

20cm x 13cm (approx. 8inch. x 5inch.)

About the book: A thirty-five-year-old mathematics professor, meets Spiros, a young athletic Greek, eleven years her junior, which leads her in a pas-de-deux which she had forgotten.  Love, without capital letters, without emphasis, without speech. She analyzes, herself above all, avoiding – despite the temptation – to touch too much the young man’s soul for fear that this would lead her to transmit her poisons to him, the very ones that were gnawing at her before her meeting with Spiros …