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The Castle of Argol (French: Au château d'Argol) is a 1938 novel by the French writer Julien Gracq. The narrative is set at a castle in Brittany, where a man has invited a friend, who also has brought a young woman.
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.
1 de ene. de 1991 · A sentence plucked at random from the opening of Julien Gracq's gothic-inspired novel, as his protagonist, a wealthy young man known only as Albert, approaches for the first time a property he has purchased sight unseen, a castle on a rocky fastness, rising high above the forests in a deserted area of Brittany.
Focussing on just the three, coupled with the lavish description of the castle and the area around, completely cut off from the rest of the world, enables Gracq to heighten the emotional play between the three protagonists, as though they were the only three people in the world.
The Castle of Argol. Julien Gracq. J. Laughlin, 1951 - Castles - 145 pages. "To an ancient castle in a lonely forest by the Brittany shore come three young people whom a strang fate has...
24 de abr. de 2024 · A young man of great wealth and intelligence, Albert, purchases a castle and the surrounding landscape. He moves into Argol and immediately perceives the mystery and magic of its surroundings, particularly the nearby forest of Storrvan, a threatening overgrowth of towering trees.
It goes like this: a modest guy named Albert purchases an old castle situated in a vast, suffocating forest. Soon Albert’s lifelong pal Herminien comes to stay, together with his girlfriend Heide.
