Hell
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Behind a thin partition wall in a Parisian boarding house, an unnamed young man discovers a peephole — and through it, an unfiltered window into the intimate lives of strangers. Henri Barbusse's Hell (L'Enfer), first published in 1908, is a bold and provocative work of French modernism that chronicles the hidden dramas of human existence: birth, death, desire, faith, and despair, all witnessed in secret by a solitary, voyeuristic narrator whose growing obsession transforms him into an unwilling philosopher of the human condition. Barbusse, better known internationally for his WWI masterpiece Under Fire, here constructs a meditation on the nature of reality, consciousness, and moral isolation that anticipates the existentialist literature to come. Translated with a lucid and sympathetic introduction by Robert Baldick, this Panther edition makes the novel's hypnotic, stream-of-consciousness prose fully accessible to English-language readers. Charged with a quiet, almost unbearable intensity, Hell raises a question that lingers long after the final page: when we observe life without participating in it, do we illuminate truth — or simply deepen our own darkness?
Author: Henri Barbusse
Format: Paperback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Behind a thin partition wall in a Parisian boarding house, an unnamed young man discovers a peephole — and through it, an unfiltered window into the intimate lives of strangers. Henri Barbusse's Hell (L'Enfer), first published in 1908, is a bold and provocative work of French modernism that chronicles the hidden dramas of human existence: birth, death, desire, faith, and despair, all witnessed in secret by a solitary, voyeuristic narrator whose growing obsession transforms him into an unwilling philosopher of the human condition. Barbusse, better known internationally for his WWI masterpiece Under Fire, here constructs a meditation on the nature of reality, consciousness, and moral isolation that anticipates the existentialist literature to come. Translated with a lucid and sympathetic introduction by Robert Baldick, this Panther edition makes the novel's hypnotic, stream-of-consciousness prose fully accessible to English-language readers. Charged with a quiet, almost unbearable intensity, Hell raises a question that lingers long after the final page: when we observe life without participating in it, do we illuminate truth — or simply deepen our own darkness?