The Aerodrome - Couverture souple

Warner, Rex

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1860461417 ISBN 13 : 9781860461415

Editeur : The Harvill Press, 1996

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

First published in 1941, The Aerodrome is one of the few works of fiction in the twentieth century to understand the dangerous yet glamorous appeal of fascism and the less than satisfactory answer of traditional democracy? and to transmute their deadly opposition into terms of enduring art. Mr. Warner brilliantly invents, on one side, a thoroughly degenerate Village representing fallen man, and on the other side a great Aerodrome dedicated to ruthless efficiency. The ideological struggle between the idealistic Air Vice-Marshal and the hero-narrator from the Village is portrayed with poetry, narrative speed, and great simplicity of language. It is a great symbolic novel of our time. "The value of The Aerodrome as literature becomes increasingly apparent at each rereading . . . an intensely original work."? Anthony Burgess. "A moral dialogue thrown into narrative form. It is humanity versus power, sprawling fife versus death-dealing regimentation. . . . A parable worth reading."? New York Times. "The beauty of his prose, unsurpassed by any living English writer, has nothing to do with `fine writing' but springs from a sound moral core and from an intelligence with the keenest edge."? C. Day Lewis.

Quatrième de couverture :

WITH AN INTRODCTION BY MICHAEL MOORCOCK

'A powerful and mysterious novel - totally gripping' J.G. Ballard

A model of efficiency and order, the aerodrome stands on the hill looking down on the village below. Roy, coming of age in the messy, violent and adulterous world of the villagers, is simultaneously attracted and repelled by this strange place and by the powerful figure of the Air Vice-Marshal. Soon as he led to leave his family, his friends and his beloved in order to join the aerodrome and confront the secrets of this mysterious and sinister place.

'A horrified and darkly comic response ot the appeal of totalitarianism, a mixture of Orwellian satire, rural senimentality and Kafkaesque nightmare' Guardian

See also: Brave New World

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: The Harvill Press
• Date d'édition: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1860461417
• ISBN 13: 9781860461415
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304