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Gustave Roud, perhaps the most beloved poet of Swiss Romandy, is
widely considered the founder of modern francophone Swiss
literature, along with Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz. Roud lived at his
grandfather's farm in Carrouge, Canton Vaud, for his entire life.
In Air of Solitude, the first section of this two-part book, he
stalks the structures and fields of his youth, composing memories
out of his landscape. The narrator appears homegrown, expressing
nostalgia for what is already in front of him. Yet, like an
outsider, he remains distinctly elsewhere, unable to participate in
the workday rituals of the men around him--a stalking shadow of
unfulfilled yearning for affection and belonging. Air of Solitude
explores the rural bodies and lives of the Vaudois, returning again
and again to the desired male laborer Aime. Between each section of
Air of Solitude, Roud inserts short vignettes that provide fleeting
and lyrical images that resemble allusions to half-forgotten
memories. However, Roud leaves the relationship between the titled
sections and the interludes ambiguous. As the book concludes with
Requiem, the remnants of narrative shatter, leaving behind only the
spectral tatters of memory as Roud confronts the enigma of loss in
peerless, jewel-studded elegiac prose. With these two tales, Roud
revives the pastoral tradition and injects it with distinctly
modernist anxiety and disillusionment.
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