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The Cathedral of Mist - by Paul Willems (Paperback)

The Cathedral of Mist - by  Paul Willems (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Originally published in French as: La cathâedrale de brume, ÃEditions Fata Morgana, Paris 1983.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>First published in French in 1983, <i>The Cathedral of Mist</i> is a collection of stories from the last of the great Francophone Belgian fantasists: distilled tales of distant journeys, buried memories and impossible architecture. Described here are the emotionally disturbed architectural plan for a palace of emptiness; the experience of snowfall in a bed in the middle of a Finnish forest; the memory chambers that fuel the marvelous futility of the endeavor to write; the beautiful woodland church, built of warm air currents and fog, scattering in storms and taking renewed shape at dusk, that gives this book its title. <i>The Cathedral of Mist</i> offers the sort of ethereal narratives that might have come from the pen of a sorrowful, distinctly Belgian Italo Calvino. It is accompanied by two meditative essays on reading and writing that fall in the tradition of Marcel Proust and Julien Gracq. <br/><b>Paul Willems</b> (1912-97) published his first novel, <i>Everything Here Is Real</i>, in 1941. Three more novels and, toward the end of his life, two collections of short stories bracketed his career as a playwright.

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