Julien Gracq
Paperback | Pages: 144 pages Rating: 3.6 | 341 Users | 42 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Au Château d'Argol |
| ISBN: | 1782270043 (ISBN13: 9781782270041) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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An isolated castle stands in a wild, desolate landscape, surrounded by dark woods. Its new owner, a rich, dissolute young man, has invited his best friend to stay. When he arrives, he brings with him a radiant, seductive and strangely detached young woman. She, in turn, will bring death and destruction to the Château d'Argol.With its opulent, atmospheric descriptions of a savage, surreal Breton landscape and its exquisite sense of foreboding, Château d'Argol is a work of beauty and terror.
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| Title | : | Château d'Argol |
| Author | : | Julien Gracq |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 144 pages |
| Published | : | November 12th 2013 by Pushkin Collection (first published 1938) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. France. Gothic. European Literature. French Literature |
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Ratings: 3.6 From 341 Users | 42 ReviewsWrite Up Of Books Château d'Argol
A surrealist novel. One finds already all the style of Gracq: wealth of descriptions, hallucinations. The feelings are felt but ever expressed.There could be photographs as in Nadja de Breton. Remain that the drama is quite present. It is a Jules and Jim destroy. We are far from the organized dialogues. Feelings violence joined physical violence. All rests on this shift between this violence and with the smoothes style. There are rape and suicide. A first text surprising compared to theJulien Gracq does not mince his words, he uses them exactly as he means to and the result is astounding. I wish I could read French in the same way I wished I could read Russian while reading The Master and Margarita.
The castle is the man: austere, remote, full of a blinding light. The two visitors are the man: the first, a cynic and manipulator, a friend and a foe; the second, a seeker and a secret-keeper, a lover and a lure. The forest is the man: all paths lead back to him; all paths are the same. The murderer is the man: he takes the dagger and uses it. The murdered are the man: he yearns to dream and so slashes his own throat; he attempts to escape and so stabs his own back. This castle has been built
The good bits are really, really good: the gothic eloquence behind every action and description, the landscape and atmosphere, even the eroticism, are all written like a love-letter to language (in part, I'm sure, thanks to the translation). But the surrealism and dreamlike hazyness mid-way through turn this from a novel into something unexpectedly abstract and a little muddled. I'm sure someone with more patience and literary prowess would find more in this to enjoy than I did, but I found
Childe Albert to the Dark Tower Came From the top of this mute sentinel of the sylvan solitudes, the eye of a watcher following the traveller's steps could not for an instant lose sight of him throughout all the twisting arabesques of the path, and if hate should be waiting ambushed in this tower, a furtive visitor would run the most imminent danger! A sentence plucked at random from the opening of Julien Gracq's gothic-inspired novel, as his protagonist, a wealthy young man known only as
Here nature speaks.A lush and atmospheric homage to nature. The plot (devoid of dialogue) seems almost secondary. The author uses three simple characters as a vehicle to take the reader on an almost hyper-real journey though Brittany's abandoned coastline, dense woods and abandoned places. Thoroughly enjoyable and transportive. The influence of Poe and Machen seems clear to me, but I am not a scholar
This review was previously posted on the Side Real Press website in 2011. This is perhaps more a novella than novel and seems to be influenced by both the 'gothic' school of literature, especially Walpole and Poe, as well as the school of symbolist literature. The Chateau is owned by Albert, a young man of prodigious learning and beauty who is visited by his old school friend Herminien and his woman friend Heide. This trio become very immersed in one another and, needless to say, it does not go
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