Pascal Mercier
Hardcover | Pages: 496 pages Rating: 3.73 | 16510 Users | 1760 Reviews
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| Title | : | Night Train to Lisbon |
| Author | : | Pascal Mercier |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 496 pages |
| Published | : | December 21st 2007 by Grove Press (first published 2004) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Philosophy. Cultural. Portugal. Literature |
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A huge international best seller, this ambitious novel plumbs the depths of our shared humanity to offer up a breathtaking insight into life, love, and literature itself. A major hit in Germany that went on to become one of Europe’s biggest literary blockbusters in the last five years, Night Train to Lisbon is an astonishing novel, a compelling exploration of consciousness, the possibility of truly understanding another person, and the ability of language to define our very selves. Raimund Gregorius is a Latin teacher at a Swiss college who one day—after a chance encounter with a mysterious Portuguese woman—abandons his old life to start a new one. He takes the night train to Lisbon and carries with him a book by Amadeu de Prado, a (fictional) Portuguese doctor and essayist whose writings explore the ideas of loneliness, mortality, death, friendship, love, and loyalty. Gregorius becomes obsessed by what he reads and restlessly struggles to comprehend the life of the author. His investigations lead him all over the city of Lisbon, as he speaks to those who were entangled in Prado’s life. Gradually, the picture of an extraordinary man emerges—a doctor and poet who rebelled against Salazar’s dictatorship.List Books During Night Train to Lisbon
| Original Title: | Nachtzug nach Lissabon |
| ISBN: | 0802118585 (ISBN13: 9780802118585) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Raimund Gregorius |
| Literary Awards: | Premio Grinzane Cavour for Narrativa Straniera (2007) |
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If you're into stuff like this, you can read the full review.Airing Aphorisms: Night Train to Lisbon by Pascal Mercier(Original Review, December 21st 2007)NB: Read in German.Not every difficult book is by definition a good one - not every challenge is worth taking.A good writer can do both, like Ishiguro. Write a book for the mainstream readers, to pick them up where they stand and travel with them. Or write a book so obscure that only very few will even want to go on that journey, those booksThe hype for this book (over two million copies sold) is inexplicable. Although the central character Gregorius is a classical linguist with a supposedly impregnable gift for recognizing and treasuring beautiful poetry, the entire story here hinges on his suddenly fleeing his life in pursuit of an elusive and patently insipid author named Amadeu Prado. Prado's bathetic meditations fill the pages of this novel: a source of continual inspiration for Gregorius, these sections were a source of
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution is a duty.Normally, I would just leave it at that. It's a nice quote I hadn't heard before. But, in the current climate, I am concerned that I will have my account closed down by the GR censors if I don't explain myself more fully, so I guess I'd better do so. I have not read the book, but we saw the movie at a local cinema, using the free gift card that I received as an unexpected bonus with my new contact lenses. Not thought it was great, but I was less
I noticed that this book evokes very different reactions, from admiration to disgust, and oddly enough, this is also one of the themes of the book: how different the perception of people can be, especially about each other; close friends, partners, even very close family can see or feel each other fundamentally 'wrong'.Pascal Mercier (pseudonym of Swiss philosopher Peter Bieri) has written a philosophical book, but packaged as an exciting story in a concrete setting, in the line of Voltaire's
This book took me a long, long time to read, but I am glad I stuck with it. A very philosophical book -- it asks the reader to imagine what would happen if you questioned everything about your life and started a new existence.The main character in this book does exactly that, using a book written by a Portuguese doctor to as a tool for self-discovery. If you want to be prompted to think more deeply about life, who you truly are, and about human nature in general, read this book.
I am very curious about the book*. There are introductory quotes by Michel Montaigne and Fernando Pessoa, both alluding the question of "self" and "the others"...and the "others within ourselves".Basically, it's a story about a Swiss teacher,an erudite, of Greek and Latin, who saves a Portuguese woman when she's attempting suicide at a bridge over the Aare, in Bern, Switzerland.So it starts. Raimund Gregorius is fascinated by the way she speaks French, with the Portuguese accent...and it
Coming from a Philosophy professor, I was a bit skeptical to get into the book first, but then I was drawn into the book when the protagonist, Gregorius, also a professor, leaves his stagnant and monotonous life behind on an impulse, and boards a train for Lisbon, to understand the tragic end of a writer.What is the story ? The main character, Raimund Gregorius, is a teacher of classics, who has lead a very tedious life, and that one day, out of the blue, decides to leave his job, go to Lisbon
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