The Bells Of Basel
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st eng ed.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Fair/Poor. Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board worn - frayed spine; bumped corners. Page Condition:FEP missing; Tanning and foxing throughout. Markings: Name penned on half-title page.
Set against the turbulent backdrop of pre-war Europe, The Bells of Basel plunges the reader into the social and political upheaval of early twentieth-century France, where the lives of the bourgeoisie, the working class, and revolutionary dreamers collide in a sweeping narrative of desire, corruption, and awakening. Louis Aragon chronicles the intertwined destinies of a cast of richly drawn characters — from the morally compromised Diane de Nettencourt to the radical Clara — whose personal crises mirror the fractures of a society on the brink of catastrophe. The first volume of Aragon's celebrated The Real World cycle, this novel marks the author's decisive turn from Surrealism toward Socialist Realism, wielding a prose style that is at once forensic and lyrical. Aragon's unflinching dissection of class and gender, rendered with the precision of a committed political intellect, transforms what might otherwise be a bourgeois roman à clef into a fierce indictment of capitalism and complacency. The question that haunts every page — whether individuals can transcend the world that made them — remains as urgent and unanswered as the tolling of those distant bells.
Author: Louis Aragon
Format: Hardback
Published: 1937, Peter Davies & Lovat Dickson
Genre: Historical fiction
Edition: 1st eng ed.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Fair/Poor. Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board worn - frayed spine; bumped corners. Page Condition:FEP missing; Tanning and foxing throughout. Markings: Name penned on half-title page.
Set against the turbulent backdrop of pre-war Europe, The Bells of Basel plunges the reader into the social and political upheaval of early twentieth-century France, where the lives of the bourgeoisie, the working class, and revolutionary dreamers collide in a sweeping narrative of desire, corruption, and awakening. Louis Aragon chronicles the intertwined destinies of a cast of richly drawn characters — from the morally compromised Diane de Nettencourt to the radical Clara — whose personal crises mirror the fractures of a society on the brink of catastrophe. The first volume of Aragon's celebrated The Real World cycle, this novel marks the author's decisive turn from Surrealism toward Socialist Realism, wielding a prose style that is at once forensic and lyrical. Aragon's unflinching dissection of class and gender, rendered with the precision of a committed political intellect, transforms what might otherwise be a bourgeois roman à clef into a fierce indictment of capitalism and complacency. The question that haunts every page — whether individuals can transcend the world that made them — remains as urgent and unanswered as the tolling of those distant bells.