The Polyglots - Softcover

Gerhardie, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571244424 ISBN 13: 9780571244423

Verlag: Faber & Faber, 2009

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Críticas:

'I have talent, but he has genius' -- Evelyn Waugh

'One of the funniest English writers of the century' -- Philip Toynbee

'One of the most original and influential English novels of the 20th century' -- William Boyd

'The humour of life, the poetry of death and release of the spirit... [he] describes as no prose writer has done...' --Olivia Manning, The Times

Reseña del editor:

'William Gerhardie is one of our immortals. He is our Gogol's Overcoat. We all came out of him.' Olivia Manning

'He is a comic writer of genius ... but his art is profoundly serious.' C.P. Snow

First published in 1925, this is perhaps the most acclaimed of William Gerhardie's novels and was celebrated by Anthony Powell as 'a classic'. Like his first novel, Futility, The Polyglots draws largely on personal experience. It is the story of an eccentric Belgian family living in the Far East in the uncertain years after World War I and the Russian Revolution. The tale is recounted by their dryly conceited young English relative, Captain Georges Hamlet Alexander Diabologh, who comes to stay with them during a military mission. Teeming with bizarre characters - depressives, obsessives, paranoiacs, hypochondriacs, and sex maniacs - Gerhardie paints a brilliantly absurd world where the comic and the tragic are profoundly and irrevocably entwined.

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• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0571244424
• ISBN 13: 9780571244423
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 338