The Sacred Hill
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Author | Maurice Barrès |
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Original title | La Colline inspirée |
Translator | Malcolm Cowley |
Language | French |
Publisher | Émile-Paul Frères |
Publication date | 1913 |
Publication place | France |
Published in English | 1929 |
Pages | 428 |
The Sacred Hill (French: La colline inspirée) is a 1913 novel by the French writer Maurice Barrès. It tells the story of three monks who turn the hill colline de Saxon-Sion in Lorraine into a place of worship, which then develops into a cult inspired by the heretic Eugène Vintras . It was translated into English with a foreword by Malcolm Cowley in 1929.
In 1950 Le Figaro named the book as one of the winners of the "Grand Prix des meilleurs romans du demi-siècle", a prestigious literary competition to find the twelve best French novels of the first half of the twentieth century.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ L'actualité littéraire intellectuelle et artistique (in French), Nr 60-63, éditions Odile Pathé, 1950, p. 138.
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French Wikisource has original text related to this article:
- The Sacred Hill at Gallica (in French)