A Dark Stranger (Pushkin Collection) - Softcover

Gracq, Julien

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1901285820 ISBN 13: 9781901285826

Verlag: Pushkin Press, 2009

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Gracq's position in modern French literature rests on his remarkable prose. He was one of the great stylists of his century, a write with a carnal relation to words, capable of extraordinary and hallucinatory evocative power * The Times *

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Two lovers arrive at a seaside hotel in 1920s Brittany; the other guests soon become obsessed with the man, the equivocal unsettling Allan. One by one they realize who he is - that death has come to spend the summer with them. Amid the ceaseless thunder of the waves and the wild and often surreal Breton landscape, the group that gravitates around Allan - an uncannily contemporary figure - gradually disintegrates. His death seems to symbolize the end of a generation, the approach of war. That Gracq wrote this oblique, prescient novel in a remote German prisoner-of-war camp makes its carefree jazz age setting particularly poignant.

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• Verlag: Pushkin Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1901285820
• ISBN 13: 9781901285826
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256