
Hecate and Her Dogs
Paul Morand(Author)
Pushkin Press
Published on 30. June 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
152 pages
978-1-901285-80-2 (ISBN)
Description
Hecate and Her Dogs, set in the 1920s, is the story of a love affair which turns into a nightmare. The narrator, sent to an African country to run a branch of a large French bank, begins a liaison with Clotilde, only to discover in her unexpected and shocking depths of perversity. Tense and bleak, Hecate and Her Dogs is a novella of high literary quality and disconcerting power.
This elegant novella of disturbing eroticism was the book with which Morand returned triumphantly to the literary scene in 1954. Paul Morand's Venices and The Allure of Chanel are also available from Pushkin Press.
This elegant novella of disturbing eroticism was the book with which Morand returned triumphantly to the literary scene in 1954. Paul Morand's Venices and The Allure of Chanel are also available from Pushkin Press.
Reviews / Votes
Admired both by Ezra Pound and by Marcel Proust as a pioneer craftsman of Modernist French prose (...) The sheer shapeliness of his prose recalls Hemingway; the urbanity of his selfdestructiveness compares with Fitzgerald's; and his camera eye is as lucidly stroboscopic as that of Dos Passos. He is, like Victor Segalen, Blaise Cendrars, Valery Larbaud, and Saint-John Perse, one of the great nomads of 20th-century French literature, racing through the apocalypse with the haste and glamor of an Orient Express. It is a pity we should have had to wait this long to catch up with him * The New York Times * Morand was a citizen of the world, with a sharp eye and a neat turn of phrase * The Tablet * Insight and brilliance -- Bob Corbett Without a doubt the best French writer of the 20th century -- Philippe Sollers Morand was the all-round aesthete -- Nicholas Lezard * The Guardian *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 165 mm
Width: 120 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-901285-80-2 (9781901285802)
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Persons
Paul Morand was born in Paris in 1888 and after studying at the Ecole des Science Politiques he joined the diplomatic corps, serving in London, Rome, Berne and Bucharest. His first collection of stories Tendres Stocks (1921), had an introduction by his friend Marcel Proust. In a long and busy life, he found time to write poetry, novels, short stories and travel books. In 1963 Morand was made a member of the Academie Francaise. He was married to the Romanian princess Helene Soutzo, and he died in 1976.