Spirits of the earth / Catherine Colomb ; translated by John Taylor.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: French Publication details: London : Seagull Books, 2016ISBN: 9780857423726Uniform titles: Les Esprits de la terre. English Subject(s): Upper class -- Geneva, Lake (Switzerland and France) -- Fiction | French Fiction - English Translation | Geneva, Lake (Switzerland and France) -- FictionDDC classification: 843 Other classification: Summary: Catherine Colomb was known as one of the most unusual and inventive francophone novelists of the twentieth century. Fascinated by the processes of memory and consciousness, she has been compared to Virginia Woolf and Marcel Proust. The Spirits of the Earth is the first English translation of Colomb's work and its arrival will introduce new readers to an iconic novel. The Spirits of the Earth is at heart a family drama, set at the Fraidaigue château, along the shores of Lake Geneva, and in the Maison d'en Haut country mansion, located in the hills above the lake. In these luxe locales, readers encounter upper-class characters with faltering incomes, parvenues, and even ghosts. Throughout, Colomb builds a psychologically penetrating and bold story in which the living and the dead intermingle and in which time itself is a mystery.
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Translation of the author's Les Esprits de la terre, first published in 1953.
Catherine Colomb was known as one of the most unusual and inventive francophone novelists of the twentieth century. Fascinated by the processes of memory and consciousness, she has been compared to Virginia Woolf and Marcel Proust. The Spirits of the Earth is the first English translation of Colomb's work and its arrival will introduce new readers to an iconic novel. The Spirits of the Earth is at heart a family drama, set at the Fraidaigue château, along the shores of Lake Geneva, and in the Maison d'en Haut country mansion, located in the hills above the lake. In these luxe locales, readers encounter upper-class characters with faltering incomes, parvenues, and even ghosts. Throughout, Colomb builds a psychologically penetrating and bold story in which the living and the dead intermingle and in which time itself is a mystery.
Translated from the French.
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