"Insight and brilliance" BOB CORBETT
"Paul Morand is another of those great forgotten. He mastered the bookselling market in France in the years preceding the Second World War" LISANDRO OTERO, winner of the National Literature award
"Without a doubt the best French writer of the 20th century" PHILIPPE SOLLERS
"Morand was the all-round aesthete" NICHOLAS LEZARD The Guardian
"Morand was a citizen of the world, with a sharp eye and a neat turn of phrase" The Tablet
ABOUT THE BOOK
Hecate and Her Dogs, set in the 1920s, is the story of a love affair which turns into a nightmare. The narrator, sent to an African country to run a branch of a large French bank, begins a liaison with Clotilde, only to discover in her unexpected and shocking depths of perversity. Tense and bleak, Hecate and Her Dogs is a novella of high literary quality and disconcerting power.
This elegant novella of disturbing eroticism was the book with which Morand returned triumphantly to the literary scene in 1954.
Paul Morand's Venices and The Allure of Chanel are also available from Pushkin Press.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Paul Morand was born in Paris in 1888 and after studying at the Ecole des Science Politiques he joined the diplomatic corps, serving in London, Rome, Berne and Bucharest. His first collection of stories Tendres Stocks (1921), had an introduction by his friend Marcel Proust. In a long and busy life, he found time to write poetry, novels, short stories and travel books. In 1963 Morand was made a member of the Academie Francaise. He was married to the Romanian princess Hélène Soutzo, and he died in 1976.
Translated by David Coward
Afterword by Umberto Pasti
ISBN 978 1 901285 80 2
