The Sacred Hill

The Sacred Hill
First edition title page
AuthorMaurice Barrès
Original titleLa Colline inspirée
TranslatorMalcolm Cowley
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
PublisherÉmile-Paul Frères
Publication date
1913
Published in English
1929
Pages428

The Sacred Hill (French: La colline inspirée) is a 1913 novel by the French writer Maurice Barrès. It tells the story of three monks who turn the hill colline de Saxon-Sion in Lorraine into a place of worship, which then develops into a cult inspired by the heretic Eugène Vintras [fr]. It was translated into English with a foreword by Malcolm Cowley in 1929.

In 1950 Le Figaro named the book as one of the winners of the "Grand Prix des meilleurs romans du demi-siècle", a prestigious literary competition to find the twelve best French novels of the first half of the twentieth century.[1]

References

  1. ^ L'actualité littéraire intellectuelle et artistique (in French), Nr 60-63, éditions Odile Pathé, 1950, p. 138.

External links

French Wikisource has original text related to this article:
La Colline inspirée
  • The Sacred Hill at Gallica (in French)
  • v
  • t
  • e
Novels
Miscellaneous
  • Nancy Program (party program)
  • Un jardin sur l'Oronte (opera adaptation)
Authority control databases: National Edit this at Wikidata
  • France
  • BnF data


Stub icon

This article about a 1910s novel is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

See guidelines for writing about novels. Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page.

  • v
  • t
  • e