Au Chateau D'Argol
Author : Julien Gracq
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Page : 182 pages
File Size : 18,16 MB
Release : 1967
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Author : Julien Gracq
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Page : 182 pages
File Size : 18,16 MB
Release : 1967
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Author : Julien Gracq
Publisher : Pushkin Collection
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,70 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782270041
An atmospheric and mysterious tale of lust and death, set in a crumbling Breton castle.
Author : Julien Gracq
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Page : 145 pages
File Size : 24,66 MB
Release : 1951
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Author : Marie Alice Hertzler
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Page : 392 pages
File Size : 27,80 MB
Release : 1998
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Author : Laurel MacMillan
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Page : pages
File Size : 37,75 MB
Release : 2015
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This translation from the French of the debut novel by Julien Gracq (France, 1910-2007), Au Château d'Argol, first published in 1938, tells the story of Albert, a mysterious and alienated young man who isolates himself in an ancient, deserted castle in Brittany, hoping to immerse himself in philosophical studies. He is joined by his closest friend and nemesis Herminien, who brings with him a beautiful and enigmatic woman, Heide. The intensely passionate interactions of the three protagonists are mirrored by the dramatic and foreboding landscapes of the surrounding countryside. The fateful visit of Albert's two guests is bookended by savage storms, and their psychological weight permeates the castle from which, it seems, there is no escape.
Author : Herta Rodina
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Page : 334 pages
File Size : 17,25 MB
Release : 1987
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Author : Julien Gracq
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 33,38 MB
Release : 2017-11-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1681371405
It is the fall of 1939, and Lieutenant Grange and his men are living in a chalet above a concrete bunker deep in the Ardennes forest, charged with defending the French-Belgian border against the Germans in a war that seems unreal, distant, and unlikely. Far more immediate is the earthy life of the forest itself and the deep sensations of childhood it recalls from Grange’s memory. Ostensibly readying for war, Grange instead spends his time observing the change in seasons, falling in love with a young free-spirited widow, and contemplating the absurd stasis of his present condition. This novel of long takes, dream states, and little dramatic action culminates abruptly in battle, an event that is as much the real incursion of the German army into France as it is the sudden intrusion of death into the suspended disbelief of life. Richard Howard’s skilled translation captures the fairy-tale otherworldliness and existential dread of this unusual, elusive novel (first published in 1958) by the supreme prose stylist Julien Gracq.
Author : Julien Gracq
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 21,1 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780231057899
With four elegant and beautifully crafted novels Julien Gracq has established himself as one of France's premier postwar novelists. A mysterious and retiring figure, Gracq characteristically refused the Goncourt, France's most distinguished literary prize, when it was awarded to him in 1951 for this book. As the latest work in the Twentieth-Century Continental Fiction Series, Gracq'a masterpiece is now available for the first time in English. Set in a fictitious Mediterranean port city, The Opposing Shore is the first-person account of a young aristocrat sent to observe the activities of a naval base. The fort lies at the country's border; at its feet is the bay of Syrtes. Across the bay is territory of the enemy who has, for three hundred years, been at war with the narrator's countrymen; the battle has become a complex, tacit game in which no actions are taken and no peace declared. As the narrator comes to understand, everything depends upon a boundary, unseen but certain, separating the two sides. Besides the narrator there are two other main characters, the dark and laconic captain of the base and a woman whose compex relations to both sides of the war brings the narator deeper into the story's web. For many French readers The Opposing Shore (published as Le rivage des Syrtes ), with its theme of transgressions and boundaries, spoke to the issue of defeat and the desire to fail: a paticularly sensitive motif in postwar French literature. But there is nothing about the novel tying it either to France or to the 1950s; in fact, Gracq's novel, with its elaborate, richly detailed prose, will be of greater interest now than at any point in the last twenty years.
Author : Julien Gracq
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Page : 200 pages
File Size : 30,95 MB
Release : 1951
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Author : Rodina, Herta
Publisher : Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 40,92 MB
Release : 1987
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