{"product_id":"cathedral-of-mist","title":"Cathedral of Mist","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eCathedral of Mist\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003ePaul Willems\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781939663184\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eWakefield Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2016\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA collection of ethereal stories from the last of the great Francophone Belgian fantasists\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFirst published in French in 1983, \u003ci\u003eThe Cathedral of Mist\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of stories from the last of the great Francophone Belgian fantasists: distilled tales of distant journeys, buried memories and impossible architecture. Described here are the emotionally disturbed architectural plan for a palace of emptiness; the experience of snowfall in a bed in the middle of a Finnish forest; the memory chambers that fuel the marvelous futility of the endeavor to write; the beautiful woodland church, built of warm air currents and fog, scattering in storms and taking renewed shape at dusk, that gives this book its title. \u003ci\u003eThe Cathedral of Mist\u003c\/i\u003e offers the sort of ethereal narratives that might have come from the pen of a sorrowful, distinctly Belgian Italo Calvino. It is accompanied by two meditative essays on reading and writing that fall in the tradition of Marcel Proust and Julien Gracq. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul Willems\u003c\/b\u003e (1912-97) published his first novel, \u003ci\u003eEverything Here Is Real\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1941. Three more novels and, toward the end of his life, two collections of short stories bracketed his career as a playwright.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Wakefield Press","offers":[{"title":"Cathedral of Mist | Paul Willems | Paperback | 9781939663184 | New | Fiction 1605925","offer_id":50676164722946,"sku":"1605925","price":29.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/61qWci3pL_L.jpg?v=1791353243","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/cathedral-of-mist","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}