1 option
Hell / Henri Barbusse ; translated from the French by Robert Baldick.
Van Pelt Library PQ2603.A32 E513 1995
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barbusse, Henri, 1873-1935.
- Standardized Title:
- Enfer. English. 1995.
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Voyeurism--Fiction.
- Voyeurism.
- France--Fiction.
- France.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 255 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [New York?] : Turtle Point Press, [1995]
- Language Note:
- Translation of: L'enfer.
- Summary:
- 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 book's nervous yet fluid rhythms... The book sweeps, away life's illusions."
- Notes:
- "English translaiton first published in Great Britain in 1966 by Chapman and Hall, Ltd."--T.p. verso.
- ISBN:
- 1885983018
- OCLC:
- 32610202
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.