SOULIÉ, Frédéric "Les Mémoires du Diable" [Livre Club des Champs-Élysées, 1968]

"Les Mémoires du Diable" by Frédéric Soulié [Livre Club des Champs-Élysées, 1968]. Quarter black leather with pictorial boards of the devil and flames in blue, black, red, white, and yellow. Red top stain. xi + 602pp. French language. Light rubbing of lower edges and corners bumped. Internally clean and tight. Very Good-.

Plot Summary: Just like Faust, Baron François-Armand de Luizzi sells his soul to the devil in exchange for the satisfaction of all his desires and will only escape damnation if he proves to himself that he has known happiness. Soulié paints, through deceptive characters who breathe goodness and innocence, a picture of society at its most hideous and atrocious: crime, incest, adultery, falsehood.