The Other Side of the Mountain by Michel Bernanos
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Overview: This eerie and horrifying short novel was completed by Michel Bernanos son of the distinguished French writer Georges Bernanos, shortly before Michel’s tragic death in 1964. It begins as a straightforward adventure story and gradually becomes a haunting odyssey through underworlds of despair, drugs and death.
A young boy hires out on a French galleon commissioned by the Spanish to pick up gold in Peru. He is befriended by the elderly cook and becomes his helper. After the ship has been becalmed for many days and the crew has gone berserk, a violent storm erupts and the ship sinks. The boy and his friend, the only survivors, regain consciousness convinced that they have passed into a different world. This becomes certain as the two arrive, at a body of land highlighted by a chain of reddish volcanic mountains. All about them are lifelike statues of humans and animals, the faces fixed in a fellowship of fear. But there is no sign of human or animal life, only lush vegetation and much mineral activity. Everything is covered by the same blood-red light by day and imbued with a bizarre life of its own by night. The travelers decide that their only chance of survival is to reach the highest mountaintop.
Most readers will be" held spellbound as they follow this fantastic adventure to its shattering climax. Some will be shocked by the author’s bleak vision of man and the forces exerted upon him. Yet this despair is in some measure balanced by the close camaraderie between the boy and the old man and by their quiet courage. In The Other Side of the Mountain Michel Bernanos perceptively and poignantly bespeaks an anguish and a solitude particular to our time.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy > Horror
Michel Bernanos was the second of seven children of Georges Bernanos, author of Diary of a Country Priest and A Diary of My Times. As a young man Michel served in the Free French Naval Forces and soon after World War II he moved to Brazil. He returned to France upon his father’s death in 1948 and began writing, first magazine,articles, then thrillers and a novel of adventure. But this posthumous book, published in Trance under the title La Mony tagne Morte de la Vie, was the first work to which he signed his real name. Michel Bernanos was barely forty at the time of his death in 1964.
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