A King Alone
แแแ. 2019 ยท New York Review of Books
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An existential detective story by one of France's most popular modern writers, set in a mid-nineteenth century mountain village, available in English for the first time
A King Aloneย is set in a remote Alpine village that is cut off from the world by rugged mountains and by long months when the ground is covered with snow and the heavens with cloud. One such winter, villagers begin mysteriously to disappear. Soon the village is paralyzed by terror, which gives way to relief and eager anticipation when the outsider Langlois arrives to investigate. What he discovers, however, will leave no one reassured, and his reappearance in the village a few years later, now assigned the task of guarding it from wolves, awakens those troubling memories. A man of few words, a regal manner, and military efficiency, Langlois baffles and fascinates the villagers, whose different responses to him shape Jean Gionoโs increasingly charged narrative. This novel about a tiny community at the dangerous edge of things and a man of law who is a man alone could be described as a metaphysical Western. It unfolds with the uncanny inevitability and disturbing intensity of a dream.
A King Aloneย is set in a remote Alpine village that is cut off from the world by rugged mountains and by long months when the ground is covered with snow and the heavens with cloud. One such winter, villagers begin mysteriously to disappear. Soon the village is paralyzed by terror, which gives way to relief and eager anticipation when the outsider Langlois arrives to investigate. What he discovers, however, will leave no one reassured, and his reappearance in the village a few years later, now assigned the task of guarding it from wolves, awakens those troubling memories. A man of few words, a regal manner, and military efficiency, Langlois baffles and fascinates the villagers, whose different responses to him shape Jean Gionoโs increasingly charged narrative. This novel about a tiny community at the dangerous edge of things and a man of law who is a man alone could be described as a metaphysical Western. It unfolds with the uncanny inevitability and disturbing intensity of a dream.
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Jean Gionoย (1895โ1970) was born and lived most of his life in the town of Manosque, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. Largely self-educated, he started working as a bank clerk at the age of sixteen and reported for military service when World War I broke out. After the success ofย Hill, which won the Prix Brentano, he left the bank and began to publish prolifically. During World War IIย hisย outspoken pacifism led some to accuse him, unjustly, of defeatism and collaboration with the Nazis. After Franceโs liberation in 1944, he was imprisoned and held without charges. Despite being blacklisted after his release, Giono continued writing and achieved renewed success. He was elected to the Acadรฉmie Goncourt in 1954. NYRB Classics publishes Gionoโsย Hillย andย Melville.ย
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Alyson Watersย has translated several works from the French by Albert Cossery, Louis Aragon, Renรฉ Belletto, and others. She teaches literary translation in the French department of Yale University and is the managing editor ofย Yale French Studies. For NYRB Classics, Waters has translated Emmanuel Boveโsย HenriDuchemin and His Shadowsand, for The New Yorkย Reviewย Childrenโs Collection,ย The Tiger Princeย by Chen Jiang Hong. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Susan Stewart, the Avalon Foundation University Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University, is a poet, critic, and translator. A former MacArthur Fellow and Chancellor of the Academy of American poets, she is the author of six books of poems, includingย Columbarium, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and, most recently,ย Cinder: New and Selected Poems. Her many prose works includeย On Longing,ย Poetry and the Fate of the Senses,ย The Open Studio: Essays in Art and Aesthetics,ย The Poet's Freedom. Her forthcoming bookย The Ruins Lesson: Meaning and Material in Western Cultureย will be available from The University of Chicago Press in Fall 2019.
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Alyson Watersย has translated several works from the French by Albert Cossery, Louis Aragon, Renรฉ Belletto, and others. She teaches literary translation in the French department of Yale University and is the managing editor ofย Yale French Studies. For NYRB Classics, Waters has translated Emmanuel Boveโsย HenriDuchemin and His Shadowsand, for The New Yorkย Reviewย Childrenโs Collection,ย The Tiger Princeย by Chen Jiang Hong. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Susan Stewart, the Avalon Foundation University Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University, is a poet, critic, and translator. A former MacArthur Fellow and Chancellor of the Academy of American poets, she is the author of six books of poems, includingย Columbarium, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and, most recently,ย Cinder: New and Selected Poems. Her many prose works includeย On Longing,ย Poetry and the Fate of the Senses,ย The Open Studio: Essays in Art and Aesthetics,ย The Poet's Freedom. Her forthcoming bookย The Ruins Lesson: Meaning and Material in Western Cultureย will be available from The University of Chicago Press in Fall 2019.
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