by Julien Green · Ediciones B. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788477357872
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«Países lejanos» is the historical novel by Julien Green, published by Ediciones B. in hardback (881 pages, in Spanish).
The novel is set in the southern United States in the mid-19th century and follows Elizabeth Estridge, a young Englishwoman immersed in the aristocratic society before the Civil War. Around her story, Green portrays a world of plantations, magnolias and gardenias, of courteous and drowsy traditions that the progress of the time considers indefensible, and that the war will destroy forever.
The work was translated by Mauricio Wacquez, with a prologue by Rafael Conte, and is part of the Dixie series as the first installment. Original title: Les Pays lointains.
For readers of historical fiction and contemporary classic narrative seeking an evocation of the American South on the eve of the Civil War.
Julien Green, often Julian Green, was an American writer who lived most of his life in France and wrote mostly in French and only occasionally in English. Over a long and prolific career, he authored novels and essays, several plays, and a biography of Francis of Assisi, produced a four-volume autobiography, and for decades maintained a daily journal that he edited and published in nineteen volumes. The posthumous publication of the unexpurgated text of his journals presented a different version of his personality and sexuality, revealed details of the lives of many of his prominent contemporaries, and documented the gay subculture of 20th-century France.
