Castle Keep (American Literature)

ISBN: 9781564782083

³ö°æÉç: Dalkey Archive Press

³ö°æÄê: 2000-01

Ò³Êý: 382

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A detachment of American soldiers is assigned to an ancient castle in the Ardennes in Belgium on the pretense of protecting it against the Germans. They indulge in their respective hobbies, virtually sitting out the war until a counter-offensive in the winter of 1944 on the eve of the Battle of the Bulge. Each chapter is told from the perspective of a different character. It is a novel as modern and blunt as pop art and as intricately wrought as the medieval tapestries that grace the castle itself. The novel is the basis for the 1969 Sydney Pollack film, starring Burt Lancaster, Peter Falk and Bruce Dern.