Modern Voices: The Way of the Kings (Paperback)

from Hagelstein

Sometime in the 1920s, Claude and Perken, linked by "an obsession with death," meet on a ship headed to Indochina and plot to steal antiquities. The Dutchman Perken, with "a hostility towards established values" is more experienced in the region than his French admirer, Claude. His intensity, onc...

from Widsith

A thoughtful and entertaining novel which is, if anything, more interesting for being so obviously written under the influence of Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Whereas Conrad's novel came as part of a whole tradition of English writers confronting the 'savagery' of the remote parts of their empire ...

from baswood

Described on publication in 1930 as an adventure novel set in the romantic landscape of the temples of Angkor Watt. It must have been a puzzle to many readers at the time to have in their hands an existential tract written in feverish french with an overlay of erotisme. It was not an immediate su...

from Eurydice2

I read this in French in 1970 a couple of days before my French exam having cut it a bit fine as usual. I absolutely loved it and really regretted having missed the lectures about it. As a young reader I relished the daring adventures in palpably lush locations including jungle-covered ancient te...

from Widsith

A thoughtful and entertaining novel which is, if anything, more interesting for being so obviously written under the influence of Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Whereas Conrad's novel came as part of a whole tradition of English writers confronting the 'savagery' of the remote parts of their empire ...