by William Maxwell · The Harvill Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781860465772
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«The Chateau» is the novel by William Maxwell, published by The Harvill Press in paperback (416 pages, in English).
In 1948, a young American couple arrives in France with high expectations and spends time at the Château de Beaumesnil. The reception they find, marked by postwar weariness, is not what they imagined, and their stay becomes a constant cultural misunderstanding. Maxwell portrays with irony and sensitivity the clash between the visitors' naivety and the complexity of hosts who remain silent about their own history.
William Keepers Maxwell Jr. was an American editor, novelist, short story writer, essayist, children's author, and memoirist. He served as a fiction editor at The New Yorker from 1936 to 1975. An editor devoted to his writers, Maxwell became a mentor and confidant to many authors.
