The Other Side of the Mountain (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Michel Bernanos
- First Published: 1967
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Fantasy—Magical Realism
- Time of Work: An indeterminate time, probably the seventeenth or eighteenth century
- Setting: The Atlantic Ocean and an unearthly body of land
- Genres: Long fiction, Magical Realism, Fantasy
- Subjects: Voyages, Atlantic Ocean, Sea or seafaring life, Cookery or cooks, Mountains, Statues
- Locales: Oceans
The Plot
The Other Side of the Mountain was published posthumously and was the only book French author Michel Bernanos published under his real name. The son of well-known novelist Georges Bernanos, Michel published thrillers and an adventure novel under pseudonyms.
The novel’s narrator is a young man, barely eighteen years old. During a night of heavy drinking, he decides to sign on with a French galleon destined for the gold mines of Peru. Emerging from the previous night’s drunkenness on the ship’s deck, the boy responds sluggishly to the orders of the...
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