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Zusatztext "A black diamond." - Edmond Jaloux "[Gracq] is... the best landscape gardener of our literature-more precise than Chateaubriand! more musical than Stendhal! more sensual than Proust'." - Télérama Informationen zum Autor 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 Bibliothèque de la Pléiade during his lifetime. He died in 2007 aged 97. Julien Gracq's A Dark Stranger is also available from Pushkin Press. Klappentext An aimless young man arrives to stay with his friend in a dilapidated Gothic chateau! accompanied by a beautiful woman. His female companion's detached amorality disturbs both men-the beginning of a dark and dreamlike tale leading to murder. "[Gracq] is... the best landscape gardener of our literature-more precise than Chateaubriand, more musical than Stendhal, more sensual than Proust." "Telerama" An atmospheric and mysterious tale of lust and death, set in a crumbling Breton castle. Zusammenfassung An aimless young man arrives to stay with his friend in a dilapidated Gothic chateau! accompanied by a beautiful woman. His female companion's detached amorality disturbs both men-the beginning of a dark and dreamlike tale leading to murder.
