{"product_id":"chaos-and-night-isbn-9781590173046","title":"Chaos and Night","description":"Don Celestino is old and bitter and afraid, an impossible man. An anarchist who has been in exile from his native Spain for more than twenty years, he lives with his daughter in Paris, but in his mind he is still fighting the Spanish Civil War. He fulminates against the daily papers; he brags about his past exploits. He has become bigoted, self-important, and obsessed; a bully to his fellow exiles and a tyrant to his daughter, Pascualita.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        Then a family member dies in Madrid and there is an inheritance to sort out. Pascualita wants to go to Spain, which is supposedly opening up in response to the 1960s, and Don Celestino feels he has no choice but to follow. He is full of dread and desire, foreseeing a heroic last confrontation with his enemies, but what he encounters instead is a new commercialized Spain that has no time for the past, much less for him. Or so it seems. Because the last act of Don Celestino’s dizzying personal drama will prove that though “there is nothing serious . . . , there is tragedy.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        An astonishing modern take on Don Quixote, \u003ci\u003eChaos and Night\u003c\/i\u003e untangles the ties between politics and paranoia, self-loathing and self-pity, rage and remorse. It is the darkly funny final flowering of the art of Henry de Montherlant, a solitary and scarifying modern master whose work, admired by Graham Greene and Albert Camus, is sure to appeal to contemporary readers of Thomas Bernhard and Roberto Bolaño.“A magnificent novel of a type that only Montherlant could produce…The author’s feat in embodying much of himself in such an exceptional creation wile maintaining his customary austerity of view an of style, his almost frightening insolence and is extraordinary gift for characterization evoke…admiration.” –\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Indisputably a magnificent writer.” –\u003ci\u003eSaturday Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Written with intense control and beautifully translated, \u003ci\u003eChaos and Night\u003c\/i\u003e is one of those rare explorations of the place where political commitment, religious faith, illusion and necessity intersect, where morality and mortality come to terms.” –\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Wry and likeable” –\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Admired by such as Malraux, Camus, Graham Greene and Peter Quennell…[and] one of the few French dramatists worthy of ranking with Corneille and Racine…This is a magnificent novel of a type that only he could produce…Henry de Montherlant will live as one of the outstanding writers of the century.” –\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Well rendered in English by Terence Kilmartin.” –\u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003eHenry de Montherlant (1896–1972) was born and raised in Neuilly, outside of Paris. Montherlant’s father, who boasted of his connection to the aristocracy, was a rock-ribbed reactionary; his mother spent years in bed; both parents doted on their son. Expelled from high school for homosexual activity, Montherlant studied law briefly, enlisted in the army, and was wounded in World War I. His first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Dream\u003c\/i\u003e (1922), was a paean to the camaraderie of warriors, and several subsequent works were written in a similar vein. However, in \u003ci\u003eThe Bachelors\u003c\/i\u003e (1934) Montherlant\u003cbr\u003ediscovered a new interest in the aberrations of human behavior and psychology, and developed his mature voice: sardonic, bemused, without hint of consolation. \u003ci\u003eThe Bachelors\u003c\/i\u003e won the Grand Prix of the French Academy and was followed by four novels that were collected as \u003ci\u003eThe Girls\u003c\/i\u003e (1936–39), one of Montherlant’s major achievements and an international best seller. During WorldWar II , Montherlant remained in occupied Paris and wrote scathingly in right-wing journals about the fallen Third Republic, leading to later charges of collaborationism. He also turned from\u003cbr\u003efiction to drama, rapidly making a name as one of France’s finest playwrights. In 1960, Montherlant was elected a member of the Académie Française. In 1972, after years of worsening health, he committed suicide.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTerence Kilmartin was literary editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/i\u003e from 1951–1985. He translated several novels by Henry de Montherlant, including \u003ci\u003eThe Bachelors\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Girls\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Boys\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as works by André Malraux, Françoise Sagan, and others. Kilmartin’s revision of C.K. Scott Moncrieff’s  translation of Marcel Proust’s \u003ci\u003eRemembrance\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eof Things Past\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 1981. He died in 1991.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGary Indiana is a critic and novelist. His most recent books are \u003ci\u003eUtopia’s Debris: Selected Essays \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Shanghai Gesture\u003c\/i\u003e, a novel to be published in 2009. From 1985–1988 he was senior art critic for \u003ci\u003eThe Village Voice\u003c\/i\u003e, and has written for \u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, \u003ci\u003eArtforum\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003cbr\u003ethe \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, and other publications.","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300534210789,"sku":"NP9781590173046","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781590173046.jpg?v=1767723560","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/chaos-and-night-isbn-9781590173046","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}