Night Train To Lisbon

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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 idea of stepping into the world of a beloved book and virtually inhabiting the life of its author is a seductive one. The most comfortable travel option on night trains, sleeper cabins are almost like staying in a moving hotel. Encounters between people, it often seems to me, are like trains passing at breakneck speed in the night. Amadeu gave a graduation speech that reflected his contempt for the regime, causing many of the families in the audience to walk out, much to the chagrin of his father, a well respected judge.

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Eine Schnitzeljagd, ein Entdecken einer südeuropäischen Stadt mit einem Buch in der Hand auf der Suche nach dem Wesen eines Autors. Don't our looks bounce off others, as in the hasty encounter of the night, and leave us with nothing but conjectures, slivers of thoughts and imagined qualities? But what I cannot forgive or forget are the pitiful attempts at philosophy the book espouses, particularly through the supposed writings of the dead Amadeu de Prado. In the public eye, Amadeu's actions mark him down as a traitor, resulting in him being shunned and secretly joining the resistance to ease his conscience.Yes, taking a night train in Europe will save you the cost of a hotel room and allow you to relax throughout the journey without having to worry about driving on crowded streets and motorways.

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We really don't want to be soulless creatures who remain thoroughly indifferent to what they come across, creatures whose appraisals consist only of cool, anemic judgments and nothing can shake them up because nothing really bothers them.The book is in Portuguese, a language Raimund doesn't speak, so he begins translating with the help of a dictionary. I hope you will find some interesting book recommendations here and you will be inspired to read more. Liebe, Leidenschaft, Sehnsucht, Abenteuer, Sinnhaftigkeit, Selbstlosigkeit, Hilfsbereitschaft, Freundschaft, Aufrichtigkeit. The real night train from Hendaye (France) to Lisbon was stopped since the Covid pandemic after running for decades.

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Amadeu's friends were shocked by this, especially Jorge, who at that time was already in the resistance. A huge international best seller, this ambitious novel plumbs the depths of our shared humanity to offer up a breathtaking insight into life, love, and literature itself. This is a kitschy fairy tale started by boozing journalists, flashbulb-seeking filmmakers and authors whose minds look like tabloids. Yet everything that gives the illusion of permanence, familiarity, and intimate knowledge: isn't it a deception invented to reassure, with which we try to conceal and ward off the flickering, disturbing haste because it could be impossible to live with all the time. I am not, of course, comparing the very mild form of censorship that Goodreads has recently been practising with the horrors of the Salazar regime.

Included photo within my review is of Peter Bieri, whose pen-name is Pascal Mercier + the image of actor Jeremy Irons as Raymund Gregorius on board the train to Lisbon in the excellent 2013 film version of the novel. Epigraphs include Michel de Montaigne, Essais, Second Book, I, “De l’inconstance de nos actions” and Fernando Pessoa, Livro do Desassossego (Portuguese: Book of Disquiet/Restlessness). Das einzige, das mich doch am Rande sehr interessiert hat, waren die historischen Bezüge des Romans und der handelnden Personen zum portugiesischen faschistischen Regime von Salazar, das Konzentrationslager Campo do Tarrafal auf der Insel Santiago auf den Kapverden, der Schlächter von Lissabon Mendes und der Widerstand, dem einige der Protagonisten wie Amadeu angehörten, der schließlich zur Nelkenrevolution führte. One of the great pleasures of reading Night Train to Lisbon are passages (sometimes quite long) of Prado's pensées (thoughts) that Gregorius translates throughout - more and more facilely as he gets a purchase on Portuguese: dense, provocative snippets that contain startling and original philosophical conceits and questions.