NRF La Pléiade, Alain, Propos, 2 vols.

Condition : good, rhodoïds slightly yellowed, side edges slightly stained, vol. 1 with its dust jacket, vol. 2 without dust jacket.
Binding : publisher's full brown leather with rhodoid.

In his five thousand Propos, written from 1906 to 1914, then from 1921 to 1936, Alain's method was always to confront everyday events with the pure demands of the spirit: most of them therefore continue to echo the anxious contestations of our time.

I have repudiated all rules, except that I loved almost everything, that I had to give of everything, not to forget one of those Alains who are Alain. Neither the young one, who is already the admirable one, lively, aggressive, thoughtful, the felt on his ear, the heart for everything, nor the other one, in the light of the most beautiful light, as there had not been any light since Plato. Neither the favourite books, nor the birds, nor the stars, nor the jokes and almost manias, of which he smiled, that stubbornness which was one with his genius... I confess that I was inclined to this Alain whom I had followed on the paths of Brittany and the gods...(Maurice Savin).