"This tale of spiritualised depravity is genuinely erotic. Whatever one might think of the strange division of morality and spirituality in this novella, it shows that descriptions of generous, world-encompassing desire are not solely the preserve of women"
MURROUGH O'BRIEN Independent on Sunday
"The story has a spiritual as well as a sexual, dimension, and it is essentially pantheistic. None of the characters are named, and that's relevant to the novelist's purpose, for they are vividly realised and shadowy by turns. It is flawlessly translated by Sue Dyson"
"The story has a spiritual as well as a sexual, dimension, and it is essentially pantheistic. None of the characters are named, and that's relevant to the novelist's purpose, for they are vividly realised and shadowy by turns. It is flawlessly translated by Sue Dyson"
PAUL BAILEY Daily Telegraph
ABOUT THE BOOK
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.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
François Augiéras 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". A Journey to Mount Athos, by the same author, was published by Pushkin Press in 2008.
Translated by Sue Dyson
Cover Illustration: Massimo Kaufmann
ISBN 1 901285 44 8
112pp
