Daemon in Lithuania: Novel

by Henri Guigonnat

Book Overview

Here is a book that is elegant, good-humored, innocent, perverse, poetic, funny, extravagant, preposterous, limpid, insouciant, and philosophic. It has led readers to invoke comparisons to Hans Christian Andersen, Lewis Carroll, Cocteau, La Fontaine, Ronald Firbank, Giraudoux, Julien Gracq, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Laurence Sterne, Voltaire. In 1974, when it was published in France, it won for its twenty-five-year-old author wide critical acclaim and the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811209393
• ISBN13: 9780811209397
• Release Date: April 1985
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.2" x 8.0"