Armed With Madness

Классическая проза ХX века

Автор: Баттс Мэри

Серия: Penguin Classics

Язык: английский

Год: 2001

Издатель: Penguin Books Ltd

ISBN: 0-14-118601-1

Город: London

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Аннотация

In a remote house on the English Channel coast, a group of people, handsome and young, are gathered: Scylla Taverner, ‘sometimes a witch and sometimes a bitch’, her potential lover Picus, her brother Felix and two other friends. Into their close circle comes Carston, an American curious to see something of England ‘off the regulation road’. But the discovery of an ancient jade cup ignites conflicting emotions, and they embark on a mystical quest, full of heady promise and violent consequence.
Mary Butts’s unconventional lifestyle in London and France in the 1920s overshadowed the importance of her work. With its startlingly original style, rich appreciation of landscape and myth and concern with spiritual alienation, Armed With Madness reveals her as a writer with a truly distinctive voice.