‎ROYER (Alphonse).‎
‎Un divan.‎

‎West-oestlicher Divan. - [ONE OF GOETHE’S LAST GREAT LYRICAL WORKS, UNITING EASTERN AND WESTERN POETRY]‎

‎Stuttgart, Cottaischen Buchhandlung, 1819. 8vo. In contemporary half cloth. Binding with miscolouring, some wear to spine. Title-page with traces of old stamp. Paper-label pasted on to verso of title-page. With come occassional foxing throughout. Housed in a recent slipcase. 556 pp. + frontispiece. Pp 399-400 are counted twice whereas pages 495-496 are skipped so that the final page count remains correct. P. 9 'Talismane' instead of later 'Talisman', indicating the first issue. Housed in a slipcase. Withbound in the back are pp. 7-10, the corrected pages from the second issue. ‎

‎A very fine copy of the first edition, first issue, of Goethe’s celebrated cycle of lyrical poems, inspired by the works of the great Persian poet Hafez. Intended as a poetic dialogue between East and West, “Divan” also reflects Goethe’s deep affection for the Austrian dancer Marianne von Willemer (1784–1860) who contributed several poems to the collection. Furthermore it represents one of the most important engagements with Eastern poetry in German Romantic literature and contains some of the finest verses of Goethe’s later years. “The West-Eastern Divan is in many ways a revolutionary book. Goethe himself was no revolutionary – far from it – and yet his book had the effect of capsizing conventional nineteenth-century conceptions of poetry. It represented nothing less than a decisive reconfiguration of poetry.” (…) By 1814, five years before the publication of the Divan, Goethe had come upon the poems of Hafiz in the translation of Joseph von Hammer (later von Hammer-Purgstall), a prolific Orientalist who had rendered the complete Divan of the Persian poet into German. The word divan (diwan in Arabic) is itself of Persian origin originally it meant a kind of register, a record. (The word has passed into European languages to designate border and customs controls, e.g., douane in French or dogana in Italian.) An early Arab philologist could state that ‘poetry is the diwan of the Arabs’. By that he meant that the poems of the pre-Islamic Arabs, with their very specific mentions of places and of tribes, of battles and skirmishes, of blood-feuds and clan rivalries, served as a record of events that would otherwise have been lost. (…) But the word divan also came to designate the collected works of a poet. And it is in conscious imitation of his beloved ?afi? that Goethe chose to use the word Divan for his own collection. Even so, there is a crucial distinction to be noted. Goethe calls his own collection the West-östlicher Divan, the West-Eastern Divan. His Divan is not to be simply an imitation of an Eastern model but a work that holds both East and West in firm but affectionate equipoise.” (From the introduction of Ormsby’s English translation to West-Eastern Divan).Hagen 416‎

‎West-oestlicher Divan. - [ONE OF GOETHE’S LAST GREAT LYRICAL WORKS, UNITING EASTERN AND WESTERN POETRY]‎

‎Stuttgart, Cottaischen Buchhandlung, 1819. 8vo. Exquisitely bound in and early 20th century full morocco binding. Spine with gilt lettering and floral motifs and boards with gilt floral motifs within a gilt-ruled panel. End-papers with Moorish lattice forms. Upper edge gilt, fore- and lower edge uncut. Binding signed “AK”. Internally very fine and clean, overall a most attractive copy. 556 pp. + frontispiece. Pp 399-400 are counted twice whereas pages 495-496 are skipped so that the final page count remains correct. P. 9 'Talismane' instead of later 'Talisman', indicating the first issue. Housed in a slipcase. Withbound in the back are pp. 7-10, the corrected pages from the second issue. ‎

‎A very fine copy of the first edition, first issue, of Goethe’s celebrated cycle of lyrical poems, inspired by the works of the great Persian poet Hafez. Intended as a poetic dialogue between East and West, “Divan” also reflects Goethe’s deep affection for the Austrian dancer Marianne von Willemer (1784–1860) who contributed several poems to the collection. Furthermore it represents one of the most important engagements with Eastern poetry in German Romantic literature and contains some of the finest verses of Goethe’s later years. “The West-Eastern Divan is in many ways a revolutionary book. Goethe himself was no revolutionary – far from it – and yet his book had the effect of capsizing conventional nineteenth-century conceptions of poetry. It represented nothing less than a decisive reconfiguration of poetry.” (…) By 1814, five years before the publication of the Divan, Goethe had come upon the poems of Hafiz in the translation of Joseph von Hammer (later von Hammer-Purgstall), a prolific Orientalist who had rendered the complete Divan of the Persian poet into German. The word divan (diwan in Arabic) is itself of Persian origin originally it meant a kind of register, a record. (The word has passed into European languages to designate border and customs controls, e.g., douane in French or dogana in Italian.) An early Arab philologist could state that ‘poetry is the diwan of the Arabs’. By that he meant that the poems of the pre-Islamic Arabs, with their very specific mentions of places and of tribes, of battles and skirmishes, of blood-feuds and clan rivalries, served as a record of events that would otherwise have been lost. (…) But the word divan also came to designate the collected works of a poet. And it is in conscious imitation of his beloved ?afi? that Goethe chose to use the word Divan for his own collection. Even so, there is a crucial distinction to be noted. Goethe calls his own collection the West-östlicher Divan, the West-Eastern Divan. His Divan is not to be simply an imitation of an Eastern model but a work that holds both East and West in firm but affectionate equipoise.” (From the introduction of Ormsby’s English translation to West-Eastern Divan).Hagen 416‎

‎N Tours. 1880-1959. crivain et traducteur franais. M.A.S. de Francis de Miomandre . S.l.n.d. 11 pages in-8, L Evolution du Divan . S.l.n.d. 11 pages in-8, L Evolution du Divan .‎

‎ Francis de Miomandre retrace, avec humour, une brve histoire du divan :Si les vieux dictionnaires dfinissent le divan comme une ... sorte de chaise-longue avec ou sans dossier, qui sert de sige dans certains salons dattente et dans quelques cafs dits cafs-divans ... il y a eu une poque o il sagissait dun meuble essentiellement utilis dans les salles dattente. ...Mais, alors, par quoi tait- il remplac dans le salon ? Eh bien ! justement, par rien. On ignorait le divan. Seuls quelques voyageurs en parlaient comme dune chose quils avaient vue l-bas, en Orient, et qui servait la sieste et aux longues paresses dun peuple dshabitu de toute action, ignorant de nos progrs modernes. Ils navaient pas la moindre ide de lacclimater chez nous. [...] Chez nous, rgnait le canap, ce meuble correct, bien lev, raisonnable, ce meuble fait pour des messieurs et des dames sagement assis, les mains aux genoux, et causant dides gnrales, ou de potins mondains [...]. Il rgna longtemps, il semblait ne devoir jamais tre dtrn. [...] Cependant cette rvolution a eu lieu et plus heureuse que bien dautres sans trouver personne pour regretter le pass. [...] Que de choses, en littrature, en art, en politique, en morale sexpliquent par lavnement du divan, et ne sexpliquent que par elle ! [...] Ce nest point par lOrient mme que nous arrive le divan. Mais par lintermdiaire de la Russie, qui dailleurs est un peu lOrient, bien entendu, mais un Orient moins agressif et comme qui dirait europanis. On se mfie moins. Ce quon refuserait dun tartare on laccepte dun Moscovite. La quantit de divans que lon consomme dans les romans russes est incroyable... Preuve que cest la mme chose dans la vie. Un hros de Pouchkine, de Tourgueniev, de Dostoevski passe une grande partie de son existence rver et bavarder sur un divan. Cest l quil mdite sur la complication de lamour et sur la malfaon de cet univers incomprhensible. Cest l quil reconstruit la socit et Dieu sait ce dont il est capable quand il se lve, pour appliquer ces ides. Cest, somme tout, l quil mne sa vritable vie, qui est la vie intrieure. [...] Il y eut une lutte, assez longue, entre le canap et le divan. Le canap, pour maintenir sa domination dfaillante, se dfendait par maint artifice de mimtisme. Il sapprofondit, stala, devint chaise-longue, pouf, que sais-je ? Ses drisoires efforts ne pouvaient le sauver. Vous enregistrerez ses derniers triomphes dans les romans de Marcel Proust (ou du moins dans cette partie prliminaire qui se passe au temps, jamais perdu, de Charles Swann)... Mais ...le divan sinstalla, dsormais invincible. Il ne se contenta point dtre l. Il lui fallait encore tre seul... et ...il se mit se rpandre. [...] Du salon et du boudoir, il gagna la chambre coucher [...] le cabinet de travail, [...], et jusqu la salle manger, et lantichambre. [...] A force dtre ainsi partout attirant par sa commodit, et en quelque sorte magntique, le divan perdit trs vite sa figure de meuble. Il devint le point central, autour duquel sordonna la dcoration, lamnagement du home entier... Francis de Miomandre obtient le Goncourt en 1908 pour son cinquime livre, Ecrit sur de l'eau. "Comme cette attribution du prix tait inattendue et que personne n'avait lu le livre qui avait t tir cinq cents exemplaires aux ditions de la revue Le Feu de Marseille, les articles que la critique lui consacra furent d'une fantaisie dsarmante. Le Temps, entre autres, affirma gravement qu'il s'agissait d'une tude de mSurs sur les grands paquebots !". Il participe un temps au Club des longues moustaches [1908-1911] groupe littraire informel qui se runit au Caff Florian Venise.‎

‎Trans revue de psychanalyse n°1 automne 1992 - Le divan - Psyché étendue - la couche analogique - à perte de vue - à la recherche de l'enfant perdu - disparêtre - les fakirs du divan - Divan le terrible - interpréter ? - coucher pour soigner la condition‎

‎Les impressions au point. 1992. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 181 pages.. . . . Classification Dewey : 150-Psychologie‎

‎Sommaire : Psyché étendue - la couche analogique - à perte de vue - à la recherche de l'enfant perdu - disparêtre - les fakirs du divan - Divan le terrible - interpréter ? - coucher pour soigner la condition de ma sollicitude - l'envie du divan - le mouvement psychanalytique 1ère partie - le mouvement vers l'autre ou le cheminement de l'incertitude. Classification Dewey : 150-Psychologie‎

‎Le Divan N° 92 : Les poètes du Divan. Anthologie des poètes du Divan, précédée d'une étude par Pierre Lièvre.‎

‎Couverture souple. Broché. 140 pages. Couverture factice.‎

‎Périodique. Le Divan, Septembre-Octobre 1923.‎