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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.
- Julien Gracq
- 1938
The gothic setting of a lonely castle in the middle of thick, dense woods, not far from a wild and inaccessible seashore, contrasts with the contemporaneity of the characters who inhabit it: a dissolute, rich and aimless young man who invites his best friend to stay in his newly-acquired château.
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Julien Gracq: Au château d’Argol (The Castle of Argol) This was Julien Gracq’s first novel. He submitted it to Gallimard, who turned it down, but José Corti took it on.
"To an ancient castle in a lonely forest by the Brittany shore come three young people whom a strang fate has brought together in this magic spot to...
Jun 9, 2017 · The latest addition to my website is Julien Gracq's Au château d’Argol (The Castle of Argol). This was Gracq's first novel and was rejected by Gallimard, no doubt because it is somewhat overwrought. It tells of a rich, noble scion buying, sight unseen, a remote castle in Brittany, to which he invites Herminien, his best…
This French novel is perhaps the most famous work of gothic surrealism. Many literary-minded horror mavens all-but swear by it, and I know of one learned essay entitled “Surrealism and Modern Horror Literature” (found in NYCTALOPS 18) that largely confines itself to just one book: this one.
Jan 1, 1991 · A sentence plucked at random from the opening of Julien Gracq's gothic-inspired novel, as his protagonist, a wealthy young man known only as Albert, approaches for the first time a property he has purchased sight unseen, a castle on a rocky fastness, rising high above the forests in a deserted area of Brittany.
- Julien Gracq, Louise Varese
