Image of a Drawn Sword (eBook)

Jocelyn Brooke (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
Pan Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-5098-5586-5 (ISBN)

Infos

The calm of Reynard Langrish's quietly predictable life is shattered when, on a night of rain-swept storm, a stranger - a young soldier called Captain Archer - appears at his remote Kentish cottage. He takes Langrish to an ancient hill fort and introduces him to the men under his command, all of whom share a mysterious tattoo - two snakes entwined around a drawn sword - and are engaged in preparations to defend against a nameless menace, referred to only as 'the Emergency'.As the dreamlike narrative rapidly accelerates into Kafkaesque nightmare, Langrish is drawn into a world where illusion, paranoia, and reality unite with lethal consequences, and disorienting shifts of time and perception culminate in a terrifying moment of pure horror.Originally published in 1950, The Image of a Drawn Sword is steeped in the themes and images that occupy much of Brooke's writing - the relentlessness of time, suppressed homosexuality, condemned love, self-hatred, and futility; and, above all, an England that was both real and uniquely his own, a mystical, half-known natural world.'In its way not inferior to Kafka . . . [it has] a haunting, sinister quality' - Anthony Powell'Seldom have naturalism and fantasy been more strangely merged' - Elizabeth Bowen'He is subtle as the devil' - John Betjeman'The skill and intensity of the writing made peculiarly haunting this cry of complaint on behalf of a bewildered Man' - Pamela Hansford Johnson, Daily Telegraph

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.10.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• ISBN-10: 1-5098-5586-6 / 1509855866
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5098-5586-5 / 9781509855865