The Sacred Hill
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| Author | Maurice Barrès |
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| Original title | La Colline inspirée |
| Translator | Malcolm Cowley |
| Language | French |
| Publisher | Émile-Paul Frères |
| Publication date | 1913 |
| Publication place | France |
Published in English | 1929 |
| Pages | 428 |
The Sacred Hill (French: La colline inspirée) is a 1913 novel by the French writer Maurice Barrès. It tells the story of three monks who turn the hill colline de Saxon-Sion in Lorraine into a place of worship, which then develops into a cult inspired by the heretic Eugène Vintras. It was translated into English with a foreword by Malcolm Cowley in 1929.
In 1950 Le Figaro named the book as one of the winners of the "Grand Prix des meilleurs romans du demi-siècle", a prestigious literary competition to find the twelve best French novels of the first half of the twentieth century.[1]
References
[edit]- ↑ L'actualité littéraire intellectuelle et artistique (in French), Nr 60-63, éditions Odile Pathé, 1950, p. 138.
External links
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- Full text of The Sacred Hill (1929 English translation) at Internet Archive
- Full text of La colline inspirée (in French) at Gallica
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