Out of the dark =
Subtitle: Du plus loin de l'oubli
By: Patrick Modiano ; translated by Jordan Stump.
Contributors: Stump, Jordan, 1959-
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Translation of: Du plus loin de l'oubli
Number of pages: 139
Subjects: Authors -- Fiction; Students -- Fiction; Youth -- Fiction; Reminiscing -- Fiction; London (England) -- Fiction; Paris (France) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: Du plus loin de l'oubli
Description: A tragic tale of hatred between two half-brothers, Celebration in the Northwest is a gripping novel by Ana Maria Matute, one of twentieth-century Spain's most important writers.

At the center of the novel are confessions that the protagonist, Juan Medinao, makes to a local priest in the fictional Castilian town of Artamila. Those confessions reveal the volatile mixture of attraction and repulsion between Juan and his half-brother, Pablo. In describing the troubled bond between these characters, Matute creates a harrowing, modern enactment of the Biblical tale of Cain and Abel.

Celebration in the Northwest is remarkable for its evocative prose, its riveting plot, and its portrayal of a character overcome by bitterness, envy, rage, and alienation.