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Cover Hans Bellmer after a photograph by Man Ray, 8 illustrations Original edition of this booklet published by the Surrealists to defend the young Violette Nozière who was condemned to death for having poisoned her parents. She quickly became "the Black Angel of the Surrealists", who dedicated this collection of poems and drawings to her. The work of the artistic movement expresses, through the crudeness of the terms, the violence of the words and the harshness of the illustrations, a veritable indictment against the family, the bourgeoisie, the hypocrisy of the defenders of the established order, and in a broader sense, society itself. The poets openly take a stand in favor of Violette Nozière through provocation (Gérard de Cortanze, Le monde du surréalisme, 2005). The stock, sent to the Parisian distributor José Corti, was seized at the Belgian border and the work was banned in France, hence its rarity. Presumed <100 copies. in trade
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