La vie des abeilles

Réf. 57155

€ 80.00

MAETERLINCK (Maurice) illustrated by R. JOEL

Paris - Editions Mornay - 1946.

Format : In-8 carré.
Number of volumes : 1 volume.
Binding : Paperback.
Collation : 238 pp.

Under brown half-brown cardboard shirt. Smooth back. Golden author and title. Printed soft cover with flaps. Nice fresh paper. Woodcut illustrations by R. JOEL by Gilbert POILLIOT.

"Mermaid Collection."

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"La Vie des abeilles" will exceed 250,000 volumes and assured the poet, in the field of natural sciences, an even greater popularity than that of Jean-Henri Fabre, so much so that the biologist Jean Rostand paid him a dazzling tribute in 1965. "In this Life of the bees, unclassifiable like many true masterpieces, Maeterlinck communicates to us, makes us share the emotion he himself feels in front of this small universe that constitutes a hive. Emotion provoked in him not only by the visible aspect, but also by the fascinating and picturesque spectacle of the quivering city. But also everything that makes up the deep life of its inhabitants, the intimacy of their morals, the secret of their age-old consciences imposed on them by the needs of the community and the necessities of the species. Reproduction, sexuality, parthenogenesis, rivalry of queens, care given to young people, social discipline, submission of the individual in the group: on all this, he meditates, wonders passionately... By virtue of his genius. Maeterlinck will bring into the literary heritage a bit of the naturalist's soul."

In very good condition.