Phébus brings back a forgotten gothic novel for its 50th anniversary
Antoinette Peské's 1941 cult novel "La Boîte en os" returns to shelves, with a preface by Isabelle Huppert, according to Le Temps.
To mark its fiftieth anniversary, the publisher Éditions Phébus has reissued "La Boîte en os", a novel by Antoinette Peské first written in the 1930s and published in 1941, according to Le Temps.
The paper describes it as a gothic novel that Edgar Allan Poe "would not have disowned," a book whose atmosphere places it among the strange, hard-to-classify titles that resurface decades after they first appeared. Le Temps notes the story unfolds amid the spells and landscapes of Scotland.
The new edition carries a preface by the actress Isabelle Huppert. Le Temps quotes her writing: "Il y a des livres qu'on n'oublie pas et d'autres dont on ne sait même pas par quel chemin ils nous ont trouvés" — there are books one never forgets, and others one does not even know by what path they found us.
Le Temps calls the novel a "diamant noir," a black diamond, underlining its status as a rediscovered curiosity rather than a familiar classic. No further detail on plot, length or translation status was given in the source material.
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