Description
An apocalyptic and darkly comic poetic novel set in a remote Yorkshire village, *Gaudete* follows an Anglican clergyman abducted by elemental spirits and replaced by a mysterious double. As the changeling assumes his role, ordinary parish life gives way to pagan ritual, erotic obsession, and a clash between earthly and supernatural powers. Blending myth, grotesque humor, violence, and visionary symbolism, the work explores transformation, spiritual authority, desire, and the fragile boundary between civilization and the primal world. Conceived with the intensity of a film script and rendered in Hughes’s stark, incantatory style, it is a challenging and surreal meditation on faith, identity, and rebirth.
Available Editions
paperback
Harper & Row
Published Jan 1, 1977
200 pages
ISBN: 006012007X
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Details
First Published
1977
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Gaudete by Ted Hughes.