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The deserter.
TITLE:
The deserter.
Publication Date:
1964
Volume:
no. 88
Subject Term:
Genre:
Summary:
Returned from the ravages of war, met with a city that offers him only despair, a young man finds himself caught between two opposing worlds -- the ordered but empty everyday life of "schedules and obligations," and the hellish chaos of the city's underside, a dark world of brutality and vice. Gripped with a restless passion for perfection, haunted by a brief and idealized experience of love, the hero of this poetic, experimental novel lives out in a modern context that most universal of myths: the descent into the underworld to experience initiations and ordeals, and the return with new understanding to the upper world.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781459743267