HELENE

Jouve, Pierre Jean; (Translated from the French By Lydia Davis)

ISBN 10: 081016003X / ISBN 13: 9780810160033

Published by Northwestern Univ Press, Evanston, IL, 1995

About this Item

BRAND NEW Copy. A novella of love and death by French poet and novelist Pierre Jean Jouve (1887 - 1976) first published in French in 1934. It is the story of the passion of a sixteen-year-old youth for an older woman who dies in her young lover's arms.

Seller Inventory # 004011

Bibliographic Details

• Title: HELENE
• Publisher: Northwestern Univ Press, Evanston, IL
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 081016003X
• ISBN 13: 9780810160033
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Edition, First Thus
• Condition: COLLECTIBLE - NEW
• Dust Jacket Condition: None as Issued
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction/Novel/Short Story
  • Literature/Literary Criticism

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Synopsis

After his marriage to a psychiatrist nine years his senior, Jouve's work, once marked by the great Christian mystics, became grounded in the Freudian unconscious, site of the conflict between Eros and Thanatos. Hélène is the story of a sixteen-year-old boy's passion for an older woman. Originally published in 1934, it is considered the high point of Jouve's prose career.

About the Author

Pierre Jean Jouve (1887, Arras, Pas-de-Calais - 1976) was a French writer, novelist and poet.