A Dark Stranger
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A Dark Stranger

  1. 254 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

A Dark Stranger

About this book

A surreal, nouveau-Gothic story of Death in a 1920s seaside hotel

From the moment he arrives at an elegant seaside hotel with his lover, Allan unsettles and obsesses the other guests. Elusive, equivocal, beautiful, he lives, gambles, swims and dances with a strange fierceness that they find intoxicating. Soon he even haunts their dreams.


One by one, each guest is fatally drawn to Allan. And, as the hazy August heat fades and summer comes to an end, they gravitate towards self-destruction.


Rich, lushly poetic, A Dark Stranger is a dreamlike portrayal of lives lived on the edge of the abyss.


Julien Gracq (1910-2007) taught history and geography in various lycées. A close friend of André Breton, his work was inspired by German Romanticism, and combines startling imagery with a rich, precise metre.


Staunchly avoiding the French literary scene-he refused the Prix Goncourt in 1951-he is one of the few authors to have been published in the BibliothÚque de la Pléiade during his lifetime. He died in 2007 aged 97.


Julien Gracq's ChĂąteau d'Argol is also available from Pushkin Press..

Information

Publisher
Pushkin Press
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9781908968357
eBook ISBN
9781782270584
Topic
Letteratura
Subtopic
Classici

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Epigraph
  5. Contents
  6. GÉRARD’S DIARY: 29th June
  7. 30th June
  8. 1st July
  9. 3rd July
  10. 4th July
  11. 5th July
  12. 6th July
  13. 7th July
  14. 15th July
  15. 16th July
  16. 18th July
  17. 19th July
  18. 20th July
  19. 22nd July
  20. 29th July
  21. 30th July
  22. 3rd August
  23. 4th August
  24. 6th August
  25. 8th August
  26. 9th August
  27. 10th August
  28. 11th August
  29. 14th August
  30. 15th August
  31. 18th August
  32. 19th August
  33. 22nd August
  34. 23rd August
  35. 24th August
  36. TRANSLATOR’S NOTES
  37. TRANSLATOR’S AFTERWORD
  38. Also Available from Pushkin Press
  39. About the Publisher
  40. Copyright

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