'A beautiful book about the best minds of a generation and the
devastation of war - an outrageous voyage from the past that speaks
eloquently to our present' Deborah Levy March 1941. A converted
cargo ship, the Paul-Lemerle, left Marseille on a voyage to the
Caribbean, fleeing Vichy France and the devastation of the war. The
ship was filled with immigrants from the East, exiled Spanish
Republicans, Jews, stateless persons and decadent artists. Among
them were Claude Levi-Strauss, the painter Wifredo Lam, the writers
Anna Seghers and Andre Breton, and the Russian revolutionary Victor
Serge. Can we know the taste of pineapple from listening to
travellers' tales? asks Bosc in the follow-up to his bestselling
debut. Can we ever feel the sensation of history? Mixing the
documentary techniques of history, the imaginative leaps of fiction
and the cool analysis of the essay, Bosc takes us from Marseille to
Casablanca to Martinique and on to New York, to tell an evocative
story of migration, cultural crisis and the intellectual cost of
the rise of fascism.
General
| Imprint: |
Serpent's Tail
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
April 2022 |
| First published: |
2018 |
| Authors: |
Adrien Bosc
|
| Translators: |
Frank Wynne
|
| Dimensions: |
294 x 214 x 10mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - B-format
|
| Pages: |
256 |
| Edition: |
Main |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-78816-274-6 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
|
| LSN: |
1-78816-274-9 |
| Barcode: |
9781788162746 |
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