{"product_id":"waystations-of-the-deep-night-paperback","title":"Waystations of the Deep Night - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMarcel Brion\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eGeorge MacLennan\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by), \u003cb\u003eGeorge MacLennan\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA canonical gem of the nocturnal fantastic, in the tradition of German Romantics such as E.T.A. Hoffmann and Novalis\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in France in the dark year of 1942, the story collection \u003ci\u003eWaystations of the Deep Night\u003c\/i\u003e remains the best-known of Marcel Brion's numerous novels and stories in the vein of the strange and the fantastic. The journeys in this volume carry the reader through the surreal vistas of an underground city that appears aboveground as a bizarre theater of facades and a fire-ravaged landscape where souls turn to ash. A young castrato sings his heart out in a lost baroque garden; a child falls under the fateful spell of an enchanted painting; a traveler in a burned-out landscape encounters the Prince of Death; and dancing cats engage in mortal combat in the cellars of an abandoned port city. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA self-declared heir of Achim von Arnim and E.T.A. Hoffmann, Brion was also an admirer of the German Romantic writer Novalis and his sequence of \u003ci\u003eHymns to the Night\u003c\/i\u003e, but his own imaginative homages to the night are more troublingly ambiguous, possibly an indirect reflection of the dark times in which they were written. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBorn in Marseille in 1895, \u003cb\u003eMarcel Brion\u003c\/b\u003e was a freelance writer and critic. In 1964 he was elected to the Acad mie fran aise in recognition of both his critical and creative writing, Over the course of a long and productive career he published 20 novels, four volumes of short stories and some 68 nonfiction books covering music, art, literature, history and travel. He died in Paris in 1984.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.1 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 14, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769314804000,"sku":"9781939663504","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/063c9a11b511cdc9c75754c64bd1a1b1.webp?v=1780345760","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/waystations-of-the-deep-night-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}