From Richard Drive Books & Collectibles, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
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"The Collected Edition of the Works of William Gerhardie." Slightly shelf-worn green dj, otherwise fine copy of the brilliant Anglo-Russian author's novel about his friend and sometime collaborator Hugh Kingsmill, with whom he wrote The Casanova Fable: A Satirical Revaluation. According to the dj copy, Pending Heaven is "a novel about two men treading the donkey-round of paradise deferred, their literary friendship strained to breaking-point by rivalry in love: ending in marriage as a resting-place for the one; for the other, in resignation, illness and an inspired vision, seen in delirium, of the indestructible essences streaming forth from the broken images of life; followed by his discovery that death has done no more than stop his reading in the book of life a sorry page, confused and deceptive and couched in metaphor and rhetoric, whereas now he could go where he liked, be what he liked." Gerhardie was one of the most critically acclaimed English novelists of the 1920s (Evelyn Waugh told him, "I have talent, but you have genius.") H. G. Wells also championed his work. Futility drew on his experiences in Russia fighting (or attempting to fight) the Bolsheviks, along with his childhood experiences visiting pre-revolutionary Russia. Some say that it was the first work in English to explore fully the theme of "waiting", later made famous by Samuel Beckett in Waiting for Godot, but it is probably more apt to recognize a common comic nihilism between those two figures. (Wikipedia). Seller Inventory # ABE-1678154453726
Bibliographic Details
Title: Pending Heaven
Publisher: MacDonald
Publication Date: 1948
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Edition: Special Edition
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