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Beauty On Earth

Through the door of a Swiss inn the reader steps into a painting. Two men talk to each other and before long the writer -someone like them, one of them- begins to address us. Thus commences the fugue that is Beauty on Earth,in which the coming of a beautiful orphan to her uncle's inn brings a gradual chaos upon his town. Swiss novelist Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz published La Beauté in 1927. This translation by Michelle Bailat-Jones is a gift for which English language readers have waited decades.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 206
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780987276070
  • Genres
  • fiction, france, classics, travel, novels
  • Release date
  • 2013