A01=Adrien Bosc
Aime Cesaire
Andre Breton
Anna Seghers
Author_Adrien Bosc
award-winning
Booker International
Carrere
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Diane Krull
documentary fiction
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exiles
flight
Frank Wynne
French fiction
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history
Javier Cercas
Laurent Binot
Levi-Strauss
Marseille
Martinique
Nazis
Paul-Lamerle
Second World War
the exiles
Transatlantic
Tristes Tropiques
Tropiques
Vichy France
voyage
Wilfredo Lam
World War Two
Product details
- ISBN 9781788162739
- Weight: 428g
- Dimensions: 138 x 220mm
- Publication Date: 15 Apr 2021
- Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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'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 Lévi-Strauss, the painter Wifredo Lam, the writers Anna Seghers and André 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.
Adrien Bosc was born in Avignon in 1986. He is the founder of Éditions du sous-sol and the magazines Desports and Feuilleton, and works in Paris as a publisher. In 2014, he received the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie Française for his first novel Constellation.
