Julien Gracq: A Dark Stranger
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Verlag: | Pushkin Press |
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Sprache: | Englisch |
Seiten: | 254 (Druckfassung) |
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A surreal nouveau-Gothic tale of death in a 1920s seaside hotel.
Two lovers arrive at a seaside hotel in 1920's Brittany. The other guests soon become obsessed with the man, the equivocal unsettling Allan. One by one they realise who he is - that Death has come to spend the summer with them. Amid the ceaseless thunder of the waves, 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.