by Pascal Mercier · Maren Sell Editeurs · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782350040301
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«Train de nuit pour Lisbonne» is the novel by Pascal Mercier, published by Maren Sell Editeurs in paperback (490 pages, in French).
Latin teacher Raimund Gregorius finds a book by Portuguese doctor and poet Amadeu de Prado and takes the night train to Lisbon to find out who its author was. The people who knew him, including those who shared his struggle against Salazar's dictatorship, reconstruct his figure and confront Gregorius with his own life.
Work originally published in German as «Nachtzug nach Lissabon» in 2004. This French edition features a translation by Nicole Casanova. Grinzane Cavour Prize 2007.
For readers of literary and philosophical fiction interested in travel narratives and Portugal's recent past.
Peter Bieri, better known by his pseudonym, Pascal Mercier, was a Swiss writer and philosopher.
