Author: Gide, André.

Title: Ein Liebesversuch und andere Novellen / von André Glde ; [vom Autor genehmigte deutsche Umdichtung von Felix Paul Greve].

Published: Berlin : Oesterheld & Co. Verlag, [1907].

Description: 97, [2] p. ; 19 cm.

Note:
Opposite tp: "Vom Autor genehmigte deutsche Umdichtung von FELIX PAUL GREVE."

Opposite "Inhalt" (p.99): "Gedruckt bei Imberg & Lefson in Berlin W."

Bound in grey-blue linen, with slightly rounded edges & gold lettering on cover & spine.
(See COVER)

Other Gide translations by Greve.

Contents:
El Hadj, oder Der Traktat vom falschen Propheten
(7- 43, with printed dedication "Für Friedrich Rosenberg" & two mottos from the Koran & the Bible on p. [6]).
Der Liebesversuch, oder Der Traktat von der eitlen Begierde
(47-76, with printed dedication "Für Francis Jammes" & a Motto from Calderon on p. [46]).
Der Traktat vom Erlebnis des Narkissos
(77-97, with printed dedication "Für Paul Valery" & the brief Motto "Nuper me in littore vidi" from Virgil on p. [78]).
Inhalt: (p.99).

Local Note:
Felix Paul Greve's translation of Gides's "La tentation amoureuse", "El Hadj", & "Le traité du Narcisse."

Much of this translation is the subject of discussion in FPG's correspondence with Gide, 1903-1909, which has been available for viewing in the UM Archives Spettigue Collection since early 1995.

This book was acquired via zvab with FPG Endowment Funds, Summer 2004.

Other Author(s): Greve, Felix Paul, 1879-1948