King Cophetua by Gracq, Julien

King Cophetua (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781885586865)

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Format: Paperback
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King Cophetua by Gracq, Julien

King Cophetua

$12.95
King Cophetua by Gracq, Julien

King Cophetua

$12.95
Format: Paperback
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It is All Saints' Day, 1917. Our narrator, a former soldier, recalls the events surrounding his arrival at the home of Jacques Nueil, an aviator and avant-garde composer. The Great War is leading up to images of the Russian Revolution, and from Nueil's villa the narrator hears the sounds of bombs dropping in the distance. This carefully paced, mysteriously atmospheric novel is inspired by vivid memory and by two images, Goya's engraving entitled La Mala Noche and Burne-Jones's painting King Cophetua and the Beggar Girl.

Author: Julien Gracq
ISBN-10: 1885586868
ISBN-13: 9781885586865
Publisher: Turtle Point Press
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2000
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.23lbs
Size: 7.36h x 4.82w x 0.26d
By Julien Gracq
By Julien Gracq
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Julien Gracq (1910-2007), born Louis Poirier in Saint-Florent-le-Vieil, was one of the greatest French writers of the twentieth century. His work included essays, criticism, fiction and journalism. He won but refused the Prix Goncourt in 1951 for his novel Le Rivage des Syrtes (The Opposing Shore). This retiring and misunderstood figure said he wrote "to settle a score with expression itself, to give form, stability, precision to things that are vague in the mind."

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