Dreamer's Journey
The Life and Writings of Frederic Prokosch
Description:... Prokosch was a writer of striking and original gifts. The publication of The Asiatics in 1935 was greeted by the fanfare of trumpets. His rise was dazzling. The author of seventeen novels, which typically guide the reader through a sequence of dream-like events, and four collections of poems, many defined by a kind of surreal intensity, he garnered high praise from a galaxy of august admirers, including Thomas Mann, T. S. Eliot, Andre Gide, Thornton Wilder, Albert Camus, Somerset Maugham, Lawrence Durrell, and I. B. Singer. He was named a Commander dans l'Order des Arts et Lettres by the French government in 1984 and awarded the Volterra Prize two years later. His novels have been translated into fifteen languages. --
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