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Title	:	Night Train to Lisbon
Author	:	Pascal Mercier
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 496 pages
Published	:	December 21st 2007 by Grove Press (first published 2004)
Categories	:	Fiction. Philosophy. Cultural. Portugal. Literature

Night Train to Lisbon

Pascal Mercier

Hardcover | Pages: 496 pages

Rating: 3.73 | 16510 Users | 1760 Reviews

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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. A major hit in Germany that went on to become one of Europe’s biggest literary blockbusters in the last five years, Night Train to Lisbon is an astonishing novel, a compelling exploration of consciousness, the possibility of truly understanding another person, and the ability of language to define our very selves. Raimund Gregorius is a Latin teacher at a Swiss college who one day—after a chance encounter with a mysterious Portuguese woman—abandons his old life to start a new one. He takes the night train to Lisbon and carries with him a book by Amadeu de Prado, a (fictional) Portuguese doctor and essayist whose writings explore the ideas of loneliness, mortality, death, friendship, love, and loyalty. Gregorius becomes obsessed by what he reads and restlessly struggles to comprehend the life of the author. His investigations lead him all over the city of Lisbon, as he speaks to those who were entangled in Prado’s life. Gradually, the picture of an extraordinary man emerges—a doctor and poet who rebelled against Salazar’s dictatorship.

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Original Title:	Nachtzug nach Lissabon
ISBN:	0802118585 (ISBN13: 9780802118585)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Raimund Gregorius
Literary Awards:	Premio Grinzane Cavour for Narrativa Straniera (2007)

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I noticed that this book evokes very different reactions, from admiration to disgust, and oddly enough, this is also one of the themes of the book: how different the perception of people can be, especially about each other; close friends, partners, even very close family can see or feel each other fundamentally 'wrong'.Pascal Mercier (pseudonym of Swiss philosopher Peter Bieri) has written a philosophical book, but packaged as an exciting story in a concrete setting, in the line of Voltaire's

Why would you give me this book to read? Why? You didnt like it. At the time I was too pleased to have a present to care. You could have put anything in my hands and Id have been delighted. A pen, a purl, a plum But this? Pah!     At the time, I thought it might still be a good story though. It looked to be a quiet, interior journey. Our man, Gregorius, has a thing for words. I can relate. But not in the way I relate at the beginning of Disneys Beauty and the Beast. Gregorius is no Belle.

A teacher of dead languages (Latin, Greek) at a German prep school has no real friends or even much of a life to speak of. One day he stops a despondent young woman from jumping off a bridge. She is Portuguese and he then begins reading a work by a Portuguese author and becomes obsessed with finding out about the author. He quits his dull job of many years (in the same school he attended as a boy) and hops a train to Lisbon even though he doesnt even speak Portuguese. So this is novel of male

When, on a whim, I threw everything away to wander thousands of miles from anything I've ever known, I first went to Lisbon because of this book. That was last September, and by November I had traipsed through neighboring Spain and south into Africa, though, I've since been back to the city of Lisbon, and furthermore to this book. If you are not, at least in some part, a thinker, if philosophy ebbs away at your patience, if the sight of pages mostly barren of dialogue make you panic, this book

My initial view of Night Train to Lisbon is that the reader is almost forced to follow the pattern of the novel's main character, Raimund Gregorius, attempting to explicate a book much like Raimund did when trying to comprehend the writings of a Portuguese doctor, Amadeu de Prado. Dr. Prado had been active in the resistance against Salazar the Portuguese dictator & Prado's words seized Raimund's imagination, causing him to suddenly flee his secure position as a teacher of classics & to

I didnt read the book, but watched the eponymous movie. Quiet, slow, mysterious, melancholical. Wonderful coverage of the ending of the Portuguese dictatorship back in the 1970s. Surprise star was Christopher Lee as priest.

I LOVED this book. I've been running around quoting "Given that we can live only a small part of what there is in us - what happens to the rest?" Part of me wants to say that that line, and the subject of this book, the exploration of alternate lives than the one you've chosen, resonated with me because I'm at that age when one recognizes how much will go undone, how many experiences will never be felt, how many lives could still be lived, given world enough and time.But actually, I've had this