Alarms and Discursions

• Date de parution : 22/02/2023
• Editeur : Culturea
• EAN : 9791041945368
• Série : (-)
• Support : Papier

• Nombre de pages : 98
• Collection : (-)
• Genre : Littérature française
• Thème : Romans Nouvelles Correspondance
• Prix littéraire(s) : (-)

Alone at some distance from the wasting walls of a disused abbey I found half sunken in the grass the grey and goggle-eyed visage of one of those graven monsters that made the ornamental water-spouts in the cathedrals of the Middle Ages. It lay there, scoured ancient rains or striped recent... Voir plus

Alone at some distance from the wasting walls of a disused abbey I found half sunken in the grass the grey and goggle-eyed visage of one of those graven monsters that made the ornamental water-spouts in the cathedrals of the Middle Ages. It lay there, scoured ancient rains or striped recent fungus, but still looking like the head of some huge dragon slain a primeval hero. And as I looked at it, I thought of the meaning of the grotesque, and passed into some symbolic reverie of the three great stages of art...