B The Black Cauldron

William Heinesen

B The Black Cauldron
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Dedalus Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
1 May 2018
Pages
363
ISBN
9781910213810

B The Black Cauldron

William Heinesen

The Black Cauldron is not a war novel as such, but a work of magic realism which traces a series of boisterous, tragi-comic events in one of the more unusual western European societies. Spanning the tragedy of war, the clash of sectarian interests, the interplay of religion and sex, The Black Cauldron develops into a presentation in mythical form of the conflict between life and death, good and evil. AUTHOR: William Heinesen (1900-1991) was born in Torshavn in the Faroe Islands, the son of a Danish mother and Faroese father, and was equally at home in both languages. Although he spent most of his life in the Faroe Islands he chose to write in Danish as he felt it offered him greater inventive freedom. Although internationally known as a poet and a novelist he made his living as an artist. His paintings range from large-scale murals in public buildings, through oil to pen sketches, caricatures and collages. It is Dedalus’s intention to make available all of William Heinesen’s 7 novels in English.

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