IN THE DEPTHS of the Sarladais, "a land of ghosts, cool caves and woods", a teenage boy is sent to live with a thirty-five-year-old priest, but soon the man becomes more than just his teacher. Published in the United Kingdom for the first time.
The Sorcerer's Apprentice is "a gallant, almost magical book" that is one of modern literature's esoteric, underground texts.
FRANCOIS AUGIERAS was born in Rochester, New York in 1925. He spent his early years in Paris and later moved to the Dordogne, which was to become his refuge in a fragmentary and restless life. He spent most of 1944-45 in Algiers, where periods in a Trappist Monastery and staying with a reclusive uncle exerted a powerful influence on his work. André Gide described Augiéras' writing as "a bizarre delight". The Sorcerer's Apprentice, by the same author, was published by Pushkin Press in 2001.
TRANSLATED BY Sue Dyson
Cover illustration by Massimo Kaufmann
ISBN 1-901285-44-8 • 112pp • £9 / $14
