Hell

ISBN-13: 9781885983015 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 266 str.

Henri Barbusse;Baldick;Robert Baldick

Opis

Fiction. Translated from the French by Robert Baldrick. "Every simile is flawlessly keyed....the book sweeps away life's illusions..."--The New Republic.

A novel, translated by Robert Baldick. A young man staying in a Paris boarding house finds a hole in the wall above his bed. Alternately voyeur and seer, he obsessively studies the private moments and secret activities of his neighbors: childbirth, first love, marriage, betrayal, illness and death all present themselves to him through this spy hole. Decades ahead of its time, "Hell" shocked and scandalized the reviewing public when first released in English in 1866. Even so, the New Republic praised "the beauty of the books nervous yet fluid rhythms... The book sweeps, away lifes illusions."