Feb. 10, 2008. To the Editor: Liesl Schillinger's review of Pascal Mercier's "Night Train to Lisbon" (Jan. 13) is startling in its lack of openness and generosity toward a text (not least ...
Jeremy Irons and Lena Olin Star in 'Night Train to Lisbon'
Jeremy Irons and Lena Olin in "Night Train to Lisbon.". He plays a stuffy academic undergoing a late midlife crisis. Lionsgate. Night Train to Lisbon. Directed by Bille August. Mystery ...
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Like "Homecoming," Pascal Mercier's "Night Train to Lisbon" delves into the question of national and personal identity, contains a text within a novel and explicitly invokes the tale of ...
Night Train to Lisbon
The NY Times Book Rev.. 13/1/2008: Liesl Schillinger: San Francisco Chronicle. 6/1/2008: Joseph Olshan: The Telegraph. 24/2/2008: Daniel Johnson: TLS: D: 29/2/2008: ... The complete review's Review: Night Train to Lisbon centres on a high school classics teacher from Berne who has spent almost his entire life -- first as a pupil, then as a ...
Night Train to Lisbon by Pascal Mercier
Mercier, P., Night Train to Lisbon, London: Atlantic Books, 2019. Pascal Mercier offers an astonishing philosophical narrative about the possibility of truly understanding another person, the ability of words to define our very selves and making a journey into the depths of our shared humanity. Night Train to Lisbon compels a reader to look ...
NIGHT TRAIN TO LISBON
An amazingly intricate and ambitious first novel - ten years in the making - that puts an engrossing new spin on the traditional haunted-house tale. Texts within texts, preceded by intriguing introductory material and followed by 150 pages of appendices and related "documents" and photographs, tell the story of a mysterious old house in a ...
Night Train to Lisbon by Pascal Mercier
9,564 reviews 158 followers. May 14, 2022. Nachtzug nach Lissabon = Night Train to Lisbon, Pascal Mercier. Peter Bieri, better known by his pseudonym, Pascal Mercier, is a Swiss writer and philosopher. The book was originally published in German in 2004, and was first published in English in 2008. Night Train to Lisbon is a philosophical novel ...
Night Train to Lisbon
Night Train to Lisbon is a philosophical novel by Swiss writer Pascal Mercier.It recounts the travels of Swiss Classics instructor Raimund Gregorius as he explores the life of Amadeu de Prado, a Portuguese doctor, during António de Oliveira Salazar's right-wing dictatorship in Portugal. Prado is a serious thinker whose active mind becomes evident in a series of his notes collected and read by ...
Pascal Mercier's "Night Train to Lisbon"
Pascal Mercier's "Night Train to Lisbon". By Robert Buckeye. February 1, 2008. Lisbon Calling. We speak about the book that changed our life, the encounter that sent us down a path, the person who turned us around. It is at such moments we say we become who we are, and we can no longer, as Edgar Allan Poe's William Wilson discovers ...
Night Train to Lisbon
Books. Night Train to Lisbon. Pascal Mercier. Open Road + Grove/Atlantic, Oct 7, 2008 - Fiction - 470 pages. The bestselling novel of love and sacrifice under fascist rule, and "a treat for the mind. One of the best books I have read in a long time" (Isabel Allende). Raimund Gregorius, a professor of dead languages at a Swiss secondary ...
Anatoly Molotkov's review of Night Train to Lisbon
5/5: A phenomenal and multifaceted novel, "Night Train to Lisbon" explores the many aspects of being human in a harsh world and in text, and the elusive nature of personality itself. When is it not too late to change our lives? With much of the action set on the eerie background of Salazar's regime in Portugal, Mercier's novel skillfully combines a tense investigation of the protagonists ...
Review: Old-Fashioned, Deeply Unadventurous 'Night Train To Lisbon
In the very finest tradition of Euro-pudding, director Bille August's "Night Train To Lisbon" adapts an international bestselling book, takes place against the picturesque backdrop of a ...
Book Marks reviews of Night Train to Lisbon by Pascal Mercier
One problem with Night Train to Lisbon is that its plot, if plot is the word for it, consists almost entirely of talk — talk, talk, talk — about people and events in the past. The effect of this endless conversation is numbing rather than stimulating ...it's never really clear here whether the central story belongs to Gregorius or to Prado, and there's scarcely a hint of dramatic tension ...
Night Train to Lisbon (Mercier)
Book Reviews All of which is interesting enough, but in a rather clinical way. One problem with Night Train to Lisbon is that its plot, if plot is the word for it, consists almost entirely of talk—talk, talk, talk—about people and events in the past. The effect of this endless conversation is numbing rather than stimulating.
Pascal Mercier's Night Train to Lisbon
Night Train to Lisbon: A Novel BY Pascal Mercier. edited by Barbara Harshav. Grove Press. Hardcover, 496 pages. $25. It's fitting that Pascal Mercier's Night Train to Lisbon, which first appeared in German in 2004, has been translated into fifteen languages. The novel, as mesmerizing and dreamlike as a Wong Kar-wai film, with characters as ...
Night Train to Lisbon (Mercier)
Night Train to Lisbon. Pascal Mercier, 2004 (Trans., 2008) Grove/Atlantic, Inc. 438 pp. ISBN-13: 9780802143976. Summary. Raimund Gregorius teaches classical languages at a Swiss lycée, and lives a life governed by routine. One day, a chance encounter with an enigmatic Portuguese woman inspires him to question his life—and leads him to an ...
Night Train To Lisbon
A huge international bestseller, with over 2 million copies sold worldwide, Night Train to Lisbon is an utterly compelling novel about one man's escape from a humdrum life in search of passion and spontaneity. Night Train to Lisbon tells the story of mild-mannered, middle-aged Classics scholar Raimund Gregorius. When, one afternoon, he walks out of his class while in the middle of giving a ...
NIGHT TRAIN TO LISBON
An elegant meditative book teaches a painfully ironic life lesson in German-Swiss author Mercier's searching 2004 novel, a critically acclaimed international bestseller being published in the United States for the first time. ... Book Reviews . Browse by Genre. View All. Fiction Thriller & Suspense Mystery & Detective Romance. Science Fiction ...
Night Train To Lisbon, film review: Beautifully shot and packed with
Night Train To Lisbon, film review: Beautifully shot and packed with big-name cameos (12A) Bille August, 110 mins Starring: Jeremy Irons, Mélanie Laurent, Jack Huston
Review: Night Train to Lisbon
Offering a worst-case answer to its hero's question, Night Train to Lisbon keeps 111 minutes of that time unshaped with a numbingly slack, would-be romantic/political thriller. A Swiss classics teacher, Raimund Gregorius (Jeremy Irons), saves a young mystery woman from diving off a bridge on his way to school and, upon finding a book with ...
Night Train to Lisbon (2013)
The revealing of the story of the Lisbon resistance movement maintained my interest from beginning to end. 9 out of 10 Rated 4.5/5 Stars • Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 05/17/24 Full Review Mahmoud M ...
Night Train to Lisbon
Night Train to Lisbon by Pascal Mercier was a huge success — selling over two million books. This literary work has been adapted for the screen by Bille August ( Jerusalem, Les Miserables, and A Song For Martin) who is a master in this genre. In Lisbon, Gregorius meets Mariana (Martina Gedeck), a lovely and emotionally sensitive optician who ...
Night Train To Lisbon review
Swedish director Bille August has made some esteemed films, from Pelle The Conqueror to The House Of The Spirits , but this Euro-pudding
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Feb. 10, 2008. To the Editor: Liesl Schillinger's review of Pascal Mercier's "Night Train to Lisbon" (Jan. 13) is startling in its lack of openness and generosity toward a text (not least ...
Jeremy Irons and Lena Olin in "Night Train to Lisbon.". He plays a stuffy academic undergoing a late midlife crisis. Lionsgate. Night Train to Lisbon. Directed by Bille August. Mystery ...
Like "Homecoming," Pascal Mercier's "Night Train to Lisbon" delves into the question of national and personal identity, contains a text within a novel and explicitly invokes the tale of ...
The NY Times Book Rev.. 13/1/2008: Liesl Schillinger: San Francisco Chronicle. 6/1/2008: Joseph Olshan: The Telegraph. 24/2/2008: Daniel Johnson: TLS: D: 29/2/2008: ... The complete review's Review: Night Train to Lisbon centres on a high school classics teacher from Berne who has spent almost his entire life -- first as a pupil, then as a ...
Mercier, P., Night Train to Lisbon, London: Atlantic Books, 2019. Pascal Mercier offers an astonishing philosophical narrative about the possibility of truly understanding another person, the ability of words to define our very selves and making a journey into the depths of our shared humanity. Night Train to Lisbon compels a reader to look ...
An amazingly intricate and ambitious first novel - ten years in the making - that puts an engrossing new spin on the traditional haunted-house tale. Texts within texts, preceded by intriguing introductory material and followed by 150 pages of appendices and related "documents" and photographs, tell the story of a mysterious old house in a ...
9,564 reviews 158 followers. May 14, 2022. Nachtzug nach Lissabon = Night Train to Lisbon, Pascal Mercier. Peter Bieri, better known by his pseudonym, Pascal Mercier, is a Swiss writer and philosopher. The book was originally published in German in 2004, and was first published in English in 2008. Night Train to Lisbon is a philosophical novel ...
Night Train to Lisbon is a philosophical novel by Swiss writer Pascal Mercier.It recounts the travels of Swiss Classics instructor Raimund Gregorius as he explores the life of Amadeu de Prado, a Portuguese doctor, during António de Oliveira Salazar's right-wing dictatorship in Portugal. Prado is a serious thinker whose active mind becomes evident in a series of his notes collected and read by ...
Pascal Mercier's "Night Train to Lisbon". By Robert Buckeye. February 1, 2008. Lisbon Calling. We speak about the book that changed our life, the encounter that sent us down a path, the person who turned us around. It is at such moments we say we become who we are, and we can no longer, as Edgar Allan Poe's William Wilson discovers ...
Books. Night Train to Lisbon. Pascal Mercier. Open Road + Grove/Atlantic, Oct 7, 2008 - Fiction - 470 pages. The bestselling novel of love and sacrifice under fascist rule, and "a treat for the mind. One of the best books I have read in a long time" (Isabel Allende). Raimund Gregorius, a professor of dead languages at a Swiss secondary ...
5/5: A phenomenal and multifaceted novel, "Night Train to Lisbon" explores the many aspects of being human in a harsh world and in text, and the elusive nature of personality itself. When is it not too late to change our lives? With much of the action set on the eerie background of Salazar's regime in Portugal, Mercier's novel skillfully combines a tense investigation of the protagonists ...
In the very finest tradition of Euro-pudding, director Bille August's "Night Train To Lisbon" adapts an international bestselling book, takes place against the picturesque backdrop of a ...
One problem with Night Train to Lisbon is that its plot, if plot is the word for it, consists almost entirely of talk — talk, talk, talk — about people and events in the past. The effect of this endless conversation is numbing rather than stimulating ...it's never really clear here whether the central story belongs to Gregorius or to Prado, and there's scarcely a hint of dramatic tension ...
Book Reviews All of which is interesting enough, but in a rather clinical way. One problem with Night Train to Lisbon is that its plot, if plot is the word for it, consists almost entirely of talk—talk, talk, talk—about people and events in the past. The effect of this endless conversation is numbing rather than stimulating.
Night Train to Lisbon: A Novel BY Pascal Mercier. edited by Barbara Harshav. Grove Press. Hardcover, 496 pages. $25. It's fitting that Pascal Mercier's Night Train to Lisbon, which first appeared in German in 2004, has been translated into fifteen languages. The novel, as mesmerizing and dreamlike as a Wong Kar-wai film, with characters as ...
Night Train to Lisbon. Pascal Mercier, 2004 (Trans., 2008) Grove/Atlantic, Inc. 438 pp. ISBN-13: 9780802143976. Summary. Raimund Gregorius teaches classical languages at a Swiss lycée, and lives a life governed by routine. One day, a chance encounter with an enigmatic Portuguese woman inspires him to question his life—and leads him to an ...
A huge international bestseller, with over 2 million copies sold worldwide, Night Train to Lisbon is an utterly compelling novel about one man's escape from a humdrum life in search of passion and spontaneity. Night Train to Lisbon tells the story of mild-mannered, middle-aged Classics scholar Raimund Gregorius. When, one afternoon, he walks out of his class while in the middle of giving a ...
An elegant meditative book teaches a painfully ironic life lesson in German-Swiss author Mercier's searching 2004 novel, a critically acclaimed international bestseller being published in the United States for the first time. ... Book Reviews . Browse by Genre. View All. Fiction Thriller & Suspense Mystery & Detective Romance. Science Fiction ...
Night Train To Lisbon, film review: Beautifully shot and packed with big-name cameos (12A) Bille August, 110 mins Starring: Jeremy Irons, Mélanie Laurent, Jack Huston
Offering a worst-case answer to its hero's question, Night Train to Lisbon keeps 111 minutes of that time unshaped with a numbingly slack, would-be romantic/political thriller. A Swiss classics teacher, Raimund Gregorius (Jeremy Irons), saves a young mystery woman from diving off a bridge on his way to school and, upon finding a book with ...
The revealing of the story of the Lisbon resistance movement maintained my interest from beginning to end. 9 out of 10 Rated 4.5/5 Stars • Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 05/17/24 Full Review Mahmoud M ...
Night Train to Lisbon by Pascal Mercier was a huge success — selling over two million books. This literary work has been adapted for the screen by Bille August ( Jerusalem, Les Miserables, and A Song For Martin) who is a master in this genre. In Lisbon, Gregorius meets Mariana (Martina Gedeck), a lovely and emotionally sensitive optician who ...
Swedish director Bille August has made some esteemed films, from Pelle The Conqueror to The House Of The Spirits , but this Euro-pudding