Synopses & Reviews
Fiction. The narrator of KING COPHETUA, a former soldier, recalls the events surrounding the arrival at the home of his friend Jacques Nueil, a dandy, an aviator, and an avant-garde composer. It is All Saints' Day, 1917. The Great War is leading up to images of the Russian Revolution, and from Nueil's villa the narrator hears the sounds of bombs dropping in the distance. Carefully paced and mysteriously atmospheric, KING COPHETUA is inspired by vivid memory and by two images, Goya's engraving entitled La Mala Noche and Burne-Jones's painting King Cophetua and the Beggar Girl.
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A World War One love story about the arrival of a soldier at the home of an aviator friend, who happens to be a dandy and avant-garde composer. The novel was inspired by two images, Goya's engraving La Mala Noche and Burne-Jone's painting King Cophetua and the Beggar Girl.
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"A slender beautifully written work takes us into the war-torn French countryside in 1917...its theme of anxiety created by a distant media driven war proves an apt metaphor for our time."—East Bay Express
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This "mesmerizing novella" (S.F. Chronicle)was made into the movie, Rendez-vous a Bray starring Anna Karina.
About the Author
The great French writer and critic Julien Gracq was the author of 20 published works - novels, essays, plays and narratives, Julien Gracq worked in solitude avoiding French literary circles and scorning media attention. Hating the publicity and commercialisation that attend literay prizes, Gracq refused to accept the Goncourt Prize, France's highest literary award, in 1951.