The Watercastle
Brenda Chamberlain
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Description for The Watercastle
Paperback. The Water-castle is a journal of love, romance and discord in 1950s Germany as a Welsh artist and poet, Elizabeth Greatorex, travels with her French husband to meet her former lover Klaus, a German count. Series: Library of Wales. Num Pages: Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 216 x 13. Weight in Grams: 188.
The Water-castle is a journal of love, romance and discord in 1950s Germany as a Welsh artist and poet, Elizabeth Greatorex, travels with her French husband to meet her former lover Klaus, a German count. Elizabeth maps a frost- and snow-bound landscape of desire against the hardening borders of a newly divided Germany. In her revealing diary, she records her struggle to bridge the distance between Wales and Germany, East and West while considering her own mythologised past and real diminished present. Brenda Chamberlain's writing pits creative idealism, emotional hunger and sexual longing against the brutal displacements of post-war Europe. ... Read more
The Water-castle is a journal of love, romance and discord in 1950s Germany as a Welsh artist and poet, Elizabeth Greatorex, travels with her French husband to meet her former lover Klaus, a German count. Elizabeth maps a frost- and snow-bound landscape of desire against the hardening borders of a newly divided Germany. In her revealing diary, she records her struggle to bridge the distance between Wales and Germany, East and West while considering her own mythologised past and real diminished present. Brenda Chamberlain's writing pits creative idealism, emotional hunger and sexual longing against the brutal displacements of post-war Europe. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Parthian Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
250
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Library of Wales
Condition
New
Number of Pages
182
Place of Publication
Cardigan, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781908069795
SKU
V9781908069795
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-42
About Brenda Chamberlain
Brenda Chamberlain was born at Bangor in 1912. In 1931 she went to train as a painter at the Royal Academy Schools in London and five years later, after marrying the artist-craftsman John Petts, settled in Caernarfonshire. During the Second World War she worked with her husband on the production of the Caseg Broadsheets. In 1947 she went to ... Read more
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