Written in 1942-43, this book explores France and French culture at
a time when France seemed cut off. The book is obsessed with the
pleasures of life at a time when nearly all pleasures were
forbidden. It proclaims its faith in the unity and continuity of
Western culture in its moment of greatest crisis in the war years.
Connnolly assumed the name of Palinurus - Aeneas' pilot - to
suggest the core of melancholy which lies at the heart of this
book. A lament for a vanishing world, this book is also a spiritual
odyssey, a meditation on literature, love, nature and religion and
a collection of aphorisms and epigrams. By the author of The Rock
Pool, Enemies of Promise and The Evening Colonnade.
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