{"product_id":"9781939663184","title":"The Cathedral of Mist","description":"\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wakefield Press, WA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47054430535920,"sku":"9781939663184","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781939663184_p0.jpg?v=1763666047","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781939663184","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}