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ХРАМ: РОМАН

Bibliographic Description

Храм: Роман / Спендер, Стивен. – М. : Глагол, 1999. – ISBN 5-87532-043-5.

Author
Спендер, Стивен
Publisher
Глагол
Year of publication
1999
Classification index (UDC)
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Language
Russian
Publication type
Book
Country of Publication
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Access
Available to all

Description

The novel "The Temple" was written in 1929. It tells of a summer vacation spent by three twenty-year-old Oxford poets in Weimar Germany. "This novel reads as autobiographical, which lends it its charm... Spender's famous friends [Wystan Auden and Christopher Isherwood], who served as prototypes for the book's characters, are easily recognizable, which makes the reading especially engrossing... Through the eyes of these future outstanding English writers we see Europe in a moment of brief calm between the two world wars. This is a novel about the awakening of sensuality and sexuality, but also about the awakening of love and friendship..." - wrote a reviewer for The Bloomsbury Review.

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