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Original title
  
Au château d'Argol

Language
  
French

Published in English
  
1951

Originally published
  
1938

Page count
  
182

Country
  
France

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Translator
  
Louise Varèse

Publication date
  
1938

Pages
  
182

Author
  
Julien Gracq

Publisher
  
José Corti

Published in english
  
1951

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The Castle of Argol (French: Au château d'Argol) is a 1938 novel by the French writer Julien Gracq. The narrative is set at a castle in Brittany, where a man has invited a friend, who also has brought a young woman. The novel is loaded with symbols and uses narrative modes from Gothic horror literature, which it blends with Hegelian thinking and stylistic traits close to the surrealist movement, including a highly abstract plot. In his "Notice to the reader", Gracq describes the book as a "demonic version" of Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal.

Publication

The novel, which was the author's first, was rejected by éditions Gallimard but accepted and published by José Corti, which was associated with the surrealists. It was praised by the surrealist leader André Breton. An English translation by Louise Varèse was published in 1951.

References

The Castle of Argol Wikipedia