Winner of the Global Humanities Translation Prize A classic of modern Proven al literature, J us d'Arbaud's 1926 masterpiece The Beast of Vacar s (also known as The Beast of Vaccar s) is a haunting parable.
Set during the fifteenth century, the tale is narrated by a solitary bull herder--known as a gardian --who stumbles upon a starving creature that is half man, half goat.
Terrified, the gardian is nonetheless drawn to the eloquent Beast, a dying demigod who laments the loss.
Northwestern University Press The beast, and other tales, paperback/jóusè d'arbaud
