Coup de Grâce
Harvill, $16.95 pb
Fiction
Coup de Grâce by Marguerite Yourcenar
by Simon Patten •
Originally published in French in 1939, Coup de Grâce is a subtle book, ‘a human, not political, document’ written with absolute assurance and remarkable skill. That the book is filled with a disturbing inhumanity portrayed (without irony) as nobility, makes it a disturbing experience for the contemporary reader.
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