Maurice Magre

The Call of the Beast

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Produktbeschreibung

Maurice Magre (1877-1941) was one of the most far-ranging and extravagant French writers of fantastic fiction in the first half of the 20th century, and perhaps the finest of them, because of the fertility and versatility of his imagination and the manner and purpose for which he deployed it. This volume, the second of a series of twelve dedicated to Magre's works, offers three novellas: Stabbed Doves The Tender Comrades and The Call of the Beast written between 1917 and 1920. Having tried sex and opium as roads to the ideal and found them wanting, Magre found a further potential resource, in the occult underworld of Paris In all three works the intrusion of the fantastic is limited, confined to opium dreams in the first two and maintained in a strictly ambiguous fashion in the third. Thereafter, the fantastic was liberated in all of his fiction, initially mostly in a malign role, but eventually serving much more various functions, many of them life-enhancing.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hollywood Comics
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 372g
• ISBN-13: 9781612276533
• ISBN-10: 1612276539
• Artikelnr.: 48742390

Autorenporträt

Maurice Magre, 2 mars 1877 à Toulouse et mort le 11 décembre 1941 à Nice, est un écrivain, poète et dramaturge français. Il est un défenseur ardent de l'Occitanie, et contribue grandement à faire connaître le martyre des Cathares du XIIIe siècle