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The Polyglots is the story of an eccentric Belgian family living in the Far East in the uncertain years after World War I and the Russian Revolution. The tale is recounted by their dryly conceited young English relative, Captain Georges Hamlet Alexander Diabologh, who comes to stay with them during a military mission. Teeming with bizarre characters--depressives, obsessives, paranoiacs, hypochondriacs, and sex maniacs--Gerhardie paints a brilliantly absurd world where the comic and the tragic are profoundly and irrevocably entwined.
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'I have talent, but he has genius' -- Evelyn Waugh
'One of the funniest English writers of the century' -- Philip Toynbee
'One of the most original and influential English novels of the 20th century' -- William Boyd
'The humour of life, the poetry of death and release of the spirit... [he] describes as no prose writer has done...' -- Olivia Manning, The Times
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'One of the funniest English writers of the century' -- Philip Toynbee
'One of the most original and influential English novels of the 20th century' -- William Boyd
'The humour of life, the poetry of death and release of the spirit... [he] describes as no prose writer has done...' -- Olivia Manning, The Times
William Alexander Gerhardie was born in St Petersburg, Russia, in 1895. As a young man he went to London and, when the First World War broke out, joined the army. He was first sent to Russia and later travelled the world before beginning to write. Futility (1922), his first novel, was sponsored by Katherine Mansfield, and other notable works of his include The Polyglots (1925) and Of Mortal Love (1936). Gerhardie's writing was acclaimed as an influence on many of his peers, including Anthony Powell, H. G. Wells, Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene and Olivia Manning. He died in London in 1977.
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- PublisherPrion Books Ltd
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 1853754455
- ISBN 13 9781853754456
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages352
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