 Purchase this book from amazon.co.uk Born in 1928 in Paris, Bernard du Boucheron was a graduate of the Institute of Political Studies and a major figure in international aeronautics and engineering industries. A French literary sensation, The Voyage of the Short Serpent was his first novel, which he wrote when he was 76 years old. Hester Velmans’ translations include Renate Dorrestein’s A Heart of Stone, for which she won the Vondel Translation Prize. | The Voyage of the Short Serpent
Bernard Du Boucheron
Translated by Hester Velmans ‘Eccentric, slightly maddened and often brutally funny ... A tour de force’ New York Times ‘Prose as spare as the frozen landscape ... The novel reads as if Cormac McCarthy channeled Jack London - or, better yet, Dostoevsky’ Houston Chronicle More quotes The time is the Middle Ages, the place is Greenland. Inquisitor Montanus has been assigned to reclaim the lost colony of New Thule for the Catholic Church. Perched on the top of the world, New Thule has strayed from the straight and narrow. Sodomy and bigamy, Montanus learns, are widespread; so, horrifically, are incest and cannibalism. Told in an elegant, compulsive, and increasingly unhinged style, Bernard du Boucheron's The Voyage of the Short Serpent is a masterpiece about human morality in inhuman conditions – a parable about truth, obsession, and the myth of Utopia. |
