Château d'Argol

Julien Gracq


Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
3.63 · 8 ratings · 144 pages · Published: 1938

Château d'Argol by Julien Gracq
Château d'Argol was written in 1938 and echoes with narrative and descriptive resonance. The gothic setting of a lonely castle in the middle of thick, dense woods, not far from a wild and inaccessible seashore, contrasts with the contemporaneity of the characters who inhabit it: a dissolute, rich and aimless young man who invites his best friend to stay in his newly-acquired château. The friend arrives not alone, but with a beautiful woman whose detached amorality disturbs both men.

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