The Spirits of the Earth

Informationen zum Autor Catherine Colomb (1892-1965) was a Swiss writer. Klappentext Swiss novelist Catherine Colomb is known as one of the most unusual and inventive francophone novelists of the twentieth century. Fascinated by the processes of memory and consciousness, she has been compared to that of Virginia Woolf and Marcel Proust. The Spirits of the Earth is the first English translation of Colomb's work and its arrival will introduce new readers to an iconic novel.The Spirits of the Earth is at heart a family drama, set at the Fraidaigue château, along the shores of Lake Geneva, and in the Maison d'en Haut country mansion, located in the hills above the lake. In these luxe locales, readers encounter upper-class characters with faltering incomes, parvenues, and even ghosts. Throughout, Colomb builds a psychologically penetrating and bold story in which the living and the dead intermingle and in which time itself is a mystery.

Product details

• Authors: Catherine Colomb
• Assisted by: John Taylor (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2016
• EAN: 9780857423726
• ISBN: 978-0-85742-372-6
• Series: SB - The Swiss List; Swiss List; SB - The Swiss List; The Swiss List; The Swiss List (Seagull Titles - Chicago)
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature