Coup de Grâce (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Marguerite Yourcenar
- First Published: 1939
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Existentialism
- Time of Work: The years following World War I and the Russian Revolution
- Setting: Kratovitsy, a Baltic estate
- Genres: Long fiction, Realism, Existential literature
- Subjects: Love or romance, Europe or Europeans, Revolutions, 1910’s, 1920’s, War, Death or dying, Cruelty, Soldiers, Houses, mansions, or manors, Russian Revolution
- Locales: Baltics
Characters Discussed
Erick von Lhomond (loh-MOHN) a Prussian soldier who fought with the White Russians against the Bolsheviks during the Russian civil war. He later became a soldier of fortune, engaged in civil conflicts in central Europe, the Chaco, Manchuria, and Spain. Tall, lean, blue-eyed, and tanned, he retains his youthful elegance at forty, his age when he narrates the story of his relationship with Conrad and Sophie de Reval twenty years earlier. His narrative begins when he returns to Kratovitsy, his boyhood home, after his training as a White Russian soldier. When...
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