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 ...
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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. "Gracq is unique. His texts shine in the darkness of literature... Every page is a discovery and we are grateful for their beauty, their intelligence and their exoticism." Lib???ration Julien Gracq (1910-2007) taught history and geography in various lyc???es. A close friend of Andr??? 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 Biblioth???que de la Pl???iade during his lifetime. He died in 2007 aged 97. His novels Dark Stranger and Ch???teau d'Argol are available from Pushkin Press.
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Book. Small Octavo, 253 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Spine white with black and blue lettering. Mild general shelf wear to head and tail of spine and to edges and corners of covers. Textblock clean. Shelved under the Front Counter. 1383152. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
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Collectable-Good Condition. 9781908968357. Good+ 1st thus 2013 Pushkin Press paperback reissue, end-flaps to cover. Price-clipped front cover flap, some uneven curling to upper edge of pages and cover due to previous storage, some discoloration to white of cover in places, internally bright and unmarked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; ISBN: 1908968354. ISBN/EAN: 9781908968357. The photos provided are of our own book, further photos may be arranged upon request. Inventory No: 091325.