The Hill of Dreams

EAN : 9791041805167

MACHEN ARTHUR

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EAN : 9791041805167

Paru le : 3 avr. 2023

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Détails

EAN13 : 9791041805167
Réf. éditeur : 292560
Date Parution : 3 avr. 2023
Disponibilite : Disponible
Barème de remise : NS
Nombre de pages : 224
Format : H:210 mm L:148 mm E:12 mm
Poids : 296gr

Résumé

Résumé : An ancient Roman hilltop fort proves an irresistible draw to Lucian Taylor, but what awaits at the top isn't just a view of the surrounding Welsh landscape but a bacchal experience his young soul isn't ready for. This experience sets his path as he attempts to transcribe his increasingly elaborate visions into the perfect book; the book that will actually mean something more than the banal novels he sees the publishing houses push out. The Hill of Dreams is a semi-autobiographical work, with Arthur Machen following a similar physical journey to the novel: a childhood in rural Wales followed by attempts to become an author in London. Machen was inspired by a review of Tristram Shandy that described it as "a picaresque of the mind," and determined to write "a Robinson Crusoe of the soul." The protagonist's isolation from the rest of society certainly resonates with that description. Machen wrote this ten years earlier than its original 1907 publication, it having been turned down by the publishers of the time. While it was mostly ignored on its initial release, it has picked up admirers over the years and is now viewed as one of Machen's most important works.
Biographie : Machen was born Arthur Llewelyn Jones in Caerleon, Monmouthshire. The house of his birth, opposite the Olde Bull Inn in The Square at Caerleon, is adjacent to the Priory Hotel and is today marked with a commemorative blue plaque. The beautiful landscape of Monmouthshire (which he usually referred to by the name of the medieval Welsh kingdom, Gwent), with its associations of Celtic, Roman, and medieval history, made a powerful impression on him, and his love of it is at the heart of many of his works.