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The hermit / Eugène Ionesco ; translated from the French by Richard Seaver.
- Title
- The hermit / Eugène Ionesco ; translated from the French by Richard Seaver.
- Author
- Ionesco, Eugène
- Publication
- New York : Viking Press, 1974.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PQ2617.O6 S613 x | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Seaver, Richard
- Description
- 169 p.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- In his only novel, the celebrated dramatist has chosen as his main character a man who is both utterly banal yet strangely touched with grace, a lowly clerk who is none-the-less prey to luminous visions. At 35 he quits the "rat-race" thanks to an unexpected inheritance and devotes himself to his secret passion: observing and meditating on the human condition. "It may well be" wrote the French critic François Nourissier in Le Point, "that in a few years we will come to realize that The Hermit is one of the essential works of our time, probing and detailing the illness of our century.
- Uniform Title
- Solitaire. English
- Alternative Title
- Solitaire.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Translations
- Note
- "A Richard Seaver book."
- Translation of Le solitaire.
- Contents
- Chapter 1: From virtuous republic to nation-state -- Chapter 2: Negotiating a national past -- Chapter 3: Rise of the (Catholic) American nation -- Chapter 4: Race and the limits of community -- Chapter 5: Anglo-Saxonism and the revolt against the professors -- Chapter 6: Harold Rugg vs. Horatio Alger -- Chapter 7: The narrative "unravels," 1961-1985.
- ISBN
- 0670368911 :
- LCCN
- ^^^73020944^//r82
- OCLC
- 1037623
- SCSB-10576657
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library