"Chateau d'Argol combines powerful psychological drama with a romantic philosophical disquisition, which is by turns elegiac, gothic and shocking"
House and Garden
ABOUT THE BOOK
THE GOTHIC SETTING of a lonely castle in the middle of thick, dense woods contrasts with the contemporaneity of the characters who inhabit it: a dissolute, rich and aimless young man who invites his best friend to stay in his newly-acquired chateau. The friend arrives not alone, but with a beautiful woman whose detached amorality disturbs both men.
THE GOTHIC SETTING of a lonely castle in the middle of thick, dense woods contrasts with the contemporaneity of the characters who inhabit it: a dissolute, rich and aimless young man who invites his best friend to stay in his newly-acquired chateau. The friend arrives not alone, but with a beautiful woman whose detached amorality disturbs both men.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
JULIEN GRACQ (the pseudonym of Louis Poirier), was born in 1910 and became a teacher of history and geography at a Paris lycee. In 1939 he met Andre Breton and though influenced by the Surrealists he established his own style of expressive and rich prose. He resolutely refuses to be part of the French literary scene over which he has had so much influence, having refused the Prix Goncourt in 1951.
Translated by LOUISE VARESE
Cover illustration by ORSINA SFORZA
ISBN 978 1 901285 14 7 - 148pp
JULIEN GRACQ (the pseudonym of Louis Poirier), was born in 1910 and became a teacher of history and geography at a Paris lycee. In 1939 he met Andre Breton and though influenced by the Surrealists he established his own style of expressive and rich prose. He resolutely refuses to be part of the French literary scene over which he has had so much influence, having refused the Prix Goncourt in 1951.
Translated by LOUISE VARESE
Cover illustration by ORSINA SFORZA
ISBN 978 1 901285 14 7 - 148pp
