The Distant Friend: A Novel (French Expressions) - Hardcover
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French
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Original Language: French
Narrated in an amused, ironical tone that belies its tragic content, Roy's short, powerful, extraordinary novel is both a rich exploration of friendship and a hymn to our genocidal century. Etienne, the provincial French narrator, represents passivity and stolid conservatism; pushed into the Resistance in WW II, he later deems the Nazi Occupation "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury." His best friend, Stefan, a German Jew who fled Hitler with his parents, could not be more dissimilar to Etienne; he is cosmopolitan, adaptable, an idealistic lawyer and jurist who marries an American socialite. Each man is the other's alter-ego, and both seem personas of French novelist-poet-essayist Roy, who himself went from ultra-rightist to Communist to disillusioned moderate. Stefan's bloody fate as an emigre in post-Peronista Argentina, where his activist teenage daughter warns him of the junta's fascism, gives the story a contemporary political edge.
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- PublisherHolmes & Meier Pub
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0841911967
- ISBN 13 9780841911963
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages154
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THE DISTANT FRIEND. Translated from the French by Hugh A. Harter. Introduction by Jack Kolbert A Novel.
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Book Description Hardcover. First Edition / First Printing. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Inscribed & dated April 11, 1991 in New York by Roy to translator Harter on the front flyleaf. Laid in is handwritten lletter in French from Roy to Harter "Cher Hugh" (and his wife Fran) which touches briefly on several matters. The letter is dated April 21, 1994. Also, laid in, is a printed cardw/envelope addressed to the Harters announcing the death of Claude Roy in 1997. Roy was born in 1915, and was an important but little-known writer outside France. A nice mini-archive. 8vo boards. PLEASE NOTE that all our First Editions are also First Printings, unless we specifically note otherwise. All our dust jackets are protected in clear mylar covers. Fine in near fine unclipped dj that has ink scribble on verso side of spine but otherwise fine. Seller Inventory # 29022
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