Wolf Solent: A Novel, Volume II【電子書籍】[ John Cowper Powys ]

＜p＞When it was first published in 1929, John Cowper Powys’ rapturous novel of eros and ideas was compared with works by Shakespeare, Thomas Hardy, and D. H. Lawrence. Since then it has won the admiration of writers from Henry Miller to Iris Murdoch. Wolf Solent remains wholly unrivalled in its deft and risky balance of mysticism and social comedy, ecstatic contemplation of nature and unblinking observation of human folly and desire.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Forsaking London for Ramsgard, a village in Dorsetshire, Wolf Solent discovers a world of pagan splendor and medieval insularity, riddled by ancient scandals and resentments. And there this poetic young man meets two womenーthe sensuous beauty Gerda and the ethereal gamine Christieーwho will become the sharers of his body and soul. Audacious, extravagant, and gloriously strange, Wolf Solent is a twentieth-century masterpiece.＜/p＞ ＜p＞This present volume is the first volume in a set of two.＜/p＞ ＜p＞“The only book in the English language to rival Tolstoy.”ーGeorge Steiner＜/p＞ ＜p＞“[Powys is] as domestic as Jane Austen, a genius like her at creating a cast of characters as part of a comedy and in a comic setting….[He is] as brilliant an explorer of our erotic being as D. H. Lawrence.”ーNew York Review of Books＜/p＞ ＜p＞“A momentous work…of transcendent interest and great beauty.”ーThe New York Times Book Review＜/p＞ ＜p＞“Filled with authentic characters and closely caught conversations, [Powys’s books] resemble Shakespeare in the interplay of cultured and ignorant, male and female.”ーSan Francisco Chronicle＜/p＞ ＜p＞“Wolf Solent is a brilliant book...beautifully managed, and with the finest of inevitability.”ーConrad Aiken＜/p＞ ＜p＞“In the beauty and freshness of its imagery and the sustained interest of its narrative, its power is without question. Its prose often rises to the cadence of poetry”ーNew York Herald Tribune＜/p＞ ＜p＞“An epic of pagan beauty.”ーChicago Tribune＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。