{"product_id":"the-cathedral-of-mist-9781939663184","title":"The Cathedral of Mist","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA collection of ethereal stories from the last of the great Francophone Belgian fantasists\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFirst published in French in 1983, \u003ci\u003eThe Cathedral of Mist\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of stories from the last of the great Francophone Belgian fantasists: distilled tales of distant journeys, buried memories and impossible architecture. Described here are the emotionally disturbed architectural plan for a palace of emptiness; the experience of snowfall in a bed in the middle of a Finnish forest; the memory chambers that fuel the marvelous futility of the endeavor to write; the beautiful woodland church, built of warm air currents and fog, scattering in storms and taking renewed shape at dusk, that gives this book its title. \u003ci\u003eThe Cathedral of Mist\u003c\/i\u003e offers the sort of ethereal narratives that might have come from the pen of a sorrowful, distinctly Belgian Italo Calvino. It is accompanied by two meditative essays on reading and writing that fall in the tradition of Marcel Proust and Julien Gracq. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul Willems\u003c\/b\u003e (1912-97) published his first novel, \u003ci\u003eEverything Here Is Real\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1941. Three more novels and, toward the end of his life, two collections of short stories bracketed his career as a playwright.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wakefield Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50567383744786,"sku":"9781939663184","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f6010a87-9c6e-44c6-8e8d-0005ddfb9ba5.jpg?v=1731919804","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-cathedral-of-mist-9781939663184","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}