Hourmaster (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Christophe Bataille
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The seventeenth century
- Setting: An unnamed duchy in France
- Principal Characters: Duke Gonzaga, Arturo, Helen, Lodvoiska, Jerdan and Guiseppe Tassinari
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: France or French people, Friendship, Seventeenth century, Good and evil, Depression, mental, Loneliness, Clocks or watches, Time
- Locales: France
When French novelist Christophe Bataille was twenty-one, he published his first novel, Annam (1993; English translation, 1996). Winner of the prestigious 1993 Prix du Premier Roman, Annam is a slim volume about the adventures of early French missionaries in late eighteenth century Vietnam. Bataille again turns back the clock in Hourmaster, an evocative, fablelike work that takes place in seventeenth century France. It is a fanciful story about the insidious encroachment of evil, the inexorable passage of time, and the disintegration of society.
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