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Arabesques

Arabesques

A Tale of Double Lives

by Robert Dessaix
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/07/2017
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One Sunday afternoon in a secluded valley in Normandy, Robert Dessaix chanced upon the castle where the 20th-century French writer Andre Gide spent his childhood.

Recalling the excitement he felt when he first read Gide as a teenager, Dessaix sets off to recapture what it was that once drew him so strongly to this enigmatic figure.

On a magic carpet ride from Lisbon to the edge of the Sahara, from Paris to the south of France and Algiers, he takes us to the places where the Nobel Prize winning author, in ways still scandalous to modern sensibilities, lived out his unconventional ideas about love, marriage, sexuality and religion.

'Magical and inviting ...these arabesques afford the reader inordinate pleasure.' Livres-Hebdo (France)

ISBN:
9781925589009
9781925589009
Category:
Autobiography: literary
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-07-2017
Publisher:
Brio Books
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
288
Dimensions (mm):
210x315mm
Weight:
0.12kg
Robert Dessaix

Robert Dessaix is a writer of fiction, autobiography and the occasional essay. From 1985 to 1995, after teaching Russian language and literature for many years at the Australian National University and the University of New South Wales, he presented the weekly Books and Writing program on ABC Radio National.

In more recent years he has also presented radio series on Australian public intellectuals and great travellers in history, as well as regular programs on language.

His best-known books, all translated into several European languages, are his autobiography A Mother's Disgrace; the novels Night Letters and Corfu; a collection of essays and short stories (and so forth); and the travel memoirs Twilight of Love and Arabesques.

In 2012 he published the collection of originally spoken pieces As I Was Saying, and in 2014 the meditation What Days Are For. A full-time writer since 1995, Robert Dessaix lives in Hobart, Tasmania.

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Literary studies: fiction Literature: history & criticism Biography: literary Literary studies: from c 1900 - Gay & Lesbian studies Travel writing Autobiography: literary
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