GARDNER, John. Grendel. Illustrated by Emil Antonucci. London: Andre Deutsch. 1972. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher’s orange cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket by Kaye Bellman. A pleasing copy, the cloth clean and a trifle bumped at extremities. The binding tight and square, the contents clean throughout barring trace offsetting to endpapers. The dust jacket unclipped with faded WHSmith sticker over printed price. Very gently bumped to the edges and corners, but a sharp example overall.
A reimagining of the famous Old English epic, Beowulf, in which the narrative is inverted to show the existential world of Grendel, ‘a creature compounded of grotesque comedy and pain, a disillusioned intelligence cutting lonely capers to make lack of hope bearable’. A really quite serious Sartrean ride.
GARDNER, John. Grendel. Illustrated by Emil Antonucci. London: Andre Deutsch. 1972. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher’s orange cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket by Kaye Bellman. A pleasing copy, the cloth clean and a trifle bumped at extremities. The binding tight and square, the contents clean throughout barring trace offsetting to endpapers. The dust jacket unclipped with faded WHSmith sticker over printed price. Very gently bumped to the edges and corners, but a sharp example overall.
A reimagining of the famous Old English epic, Beowulf, in which the narrative is inverted to show the existential world of Grendel, ‘a creature compounded of grotesque comedy and pain, a disillusioned intelligence cutting lonely capers to make lack of hope bearable’. A really quite serious Sartrean ride.
