Dabit (eugène) - *villa Oasis, Or The Pseudo-bourgeois*. Paris: Gallimard, 1932, First Edition.

DABIT (Eugène) - Villa Oasis, or the Pseudo-Bourgeois. Paris, Gallimard, 1932; in-12, 272 pp., paperback, untrimmed, printed cover.
Copy printed on pure Navarre thread paper, number 87 of 205. Eugène Dabit (1898–1936) was a member of the literary movement known as proletarian literature. He came from a family of Parisian merchants. His father was a baggage handler and his mother a fan maker. At age 18, he served as an artilleryman in World War I and experienced the occupation of the Ruhr region in Germany. He painted and exhibited his work alongside Modigliani, Soutine, and Utrillo. He achieved great success as a writer with his book *Hôtel du Nord*, which was adapted for the screen by Marcel Carné and featured the famous dialogue between Louis Jouvet and Arletty on the canal bridge. In 1936, Eugène Dabit traveled to the USSR at the invitation of André Gide for a literary tour (organized by the Soviet government); he died in Sevastopol from an undiagnosed illness that may have been typhus. Louis-Ferdinand Céline dedicated *Bagatelle for a Massacre* to him in 1937.