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Air of Solitude Followed by Requiem by Gustave Roud: Used

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Item specifics

Condition
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Publication Date
2020-04-04
Pages
192
ISBN
9780857426871
Book Title
Air of Solitude Followed by Requiem
Item Length
0.8in
Publisher
Seagull Books
Publication Year
2020
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
0.1in
Author
Gustave Roud
Genre
Poetry, Fiction
Topic
General
Item Width
0.5in
Item Weight
9.9 Oz
Number of Pages
192 Pages

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Gustave Roud, perhaps the most beloved poet of Swiss Romandy, is widely considered the founder of modern francophone Swiss literature, along with Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz. Roud lived at his grandfather's farm in Carrouge, Canton Vaud, for his entire life. In Air of Solitude , the first section of this two-part book, he stalks the structures and fields of his youth, composing memories out of his landscape. The narrator appears homegrown, expressing nostalgia for what is already in front of him. Yet, like an outsider, he remains distinctly elsewhere , unable to participate in the workday rituals of the men around him--a stalking shadow of unfulfilled yearning for affection and belonging. Air of Solitude explores the rural bodies and lives of the Vaudois, returning again and again to the desired male laborer Aimé. Between each section of Air of Solitude , Roud inserts short vignettes that provide fleeting and lyrical images that resemble allusions to half-forgotten memories. However, Roud leaves the relationship between the titled sections and the interludes ambiguous. As the book concludes with Requiem , the remnants of narrative shatter, leaving behind only the spectral tatters of memory as Roud confronts the enigma of loss in peerless, jewel-studded elegiac prose. With these two tales, Roud revives the pastoral tradition and injects it with distinctly modernist anxiety and disillusionment.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Seagull Books
ISBN-10
0857426877
ISBN-13
9780857426871
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2309687809

Product Key Features

Book Title
Air of Solitude Followed by Requiem
Author
Gustave Roud
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
General
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Poetry, Fiction
Number of Pages
192 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
0.8in
Item Height
0.1in
Item Width
0.5in
Item Weight
9.9 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Pq2635.O883
Copyright Date
2019
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
841.912
Series
The Swiss List Ser.
Dewey Edition
23

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