Personally, given the trenhotel is the same price whether booked to coimbra or lisbon, id stay in bed all the way. We would like to find a way to travel to madrid on the friday night that well be in portugal. I was hookedi read the book in no more than two sittings. The author eases the reader into a thought provoking book on. She embarks there from madrid, and she meets a handsome stranger read more. My friend and i are visiting lisbon for a day in july. The trenhotel international night train is known for its great luxury and connects spain with portugal and france. With lusitania, you sleep as you travel and reach your destination rested and refreshed. See all 22 formats and editions hide other formats and editions. Night train to lisbon is based on an international best selling book of the same name, first published in german in 2004.
Books set in lisbon night train to lisbon tripfiction. There are no other books by this author on our site. For the fast bookers, these are the booking links for the night train. Overnight train lisbon to madrid madrid forum tripadvisor. There are 8 ways to get from lisbon to amsterdam by plane, train, bus, night train or car. There are 8 ways to get from lisbon to berlin by plane, train, bus, night train or car. Pascal merciers night train to lisbon words without. Book quote by pascal mercier from night train to lisbon.
When, one afternoon, he walks out of his class while in the middle of giving a. Pascal merciers night train to lisbon delves into the question of national and personal identity, contains a text within a novel and explicitly invokes the tale of odysseus and his 20year journey through pain toward selfknowledge. Robert buckeye has had two works of fiction published, pressure drop and the munch case and has written on film and art as well as literature. Night train to lisbon theme song and quotes for the dreamers, my alltime favourite book duration. A novel mercier, pascal, harshav, barbara on amazon. Night train to lisbon by pascal mercier fantastic fiction.
One book particularly impressed me, as it contains style, narrative richness, and philosophy within it. A huge international best seller, this ambitious novel plu. All he finds is a small book, a memoir of sorts, by amadeu do prado. The effect of this endless conversation is numbing rather than stimulating.
Based on the 2004 novel night train to lisbon by pascal mercier and written by greg latter and ulrich herrmann, the film is about a swiss teacher who saves the life of a woman and then abandons his teaching career and reserved life to embark on a thrilling. Pdf night train to lisbon book by pascal mercier free. Prado is a serious thinker whose active mind becomes evident in a series of his notes collected and read by. We cast fleeting looks at the passengers sitting behind dull glass in the dim light, who disappear from our field of vision almost before we perceive them pascal mercier, night train to lisbon. A huge international best seller, night train to lisbon was published in hardcover in january with a modest first printing.
With jeremy irons, melanie laurent, jack huston, martina gedeck. Pascal mercier, author, barbara harshav, translator, trans. That said, night train to lisbon is a very long, ambitious book thats feverishly overwritten. The train is a comfortable talgo trainset offering different comfort levels. An elegant meditative book teaches a painfully ironic life lesson in germanswiss author merciers searching 2004 novel, a critically acclaimed international bestseller being published in the united states for the first time.
Select an option below to see stepbystep directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in. The night train lusitania is the best connection from portugal to madrid and central and eastern spain. His object of pursuit shifts from the young woman to the author of the book. Nachtzug nach lissabon night train to lisbon, pascal mercier the book was originally published in german in 2004, and was first published in english in 2008. Pascal merciers night train to lisbon words without borders. What other book might you compare night train to lisbon to and why. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 496 pages and is available in hardcover format. The narrative in umberto ecos books such as the name of the rose. Night train to lisbon mind control erotica book 2 in this 4500 word short story, lisas had always been told that the night train to lisbon was something that wasnt to be missed. It has been hailed by booksellers and critics, and embraced by readers. Lisbon to amsterdam 8 ways to travel via train, plane. Theres an excellent overnight sleeper train called the trainhotel lusitania leaving lisbon santa apolonia for lisbon city centre every night at 21. It allows you to travel in a great variety of sleeping accommodation and wake up in a different country the next morning. The most basic available accomodation are regular 2nd class turista seats.
About this journey the average travel time between lisbon and madrid is 10h43 minutes. Night train to lisbon follows raimund gregorius, a 57yearold classics scholar, on a journey that takes him across europe. Madrid to lisbon by lusitania sleeper train from 37. It is stamped with the address of the bookstore, so he goes there. Vanity is an unrecognised form of stupidity, you have to forget the cosmic meaninglessness of all our acts to be able to. At times night train to lisbon can feel somewhat generic and cliched, but is saved, predominantly, thanks to the credentials of this remarkable, international cast. In night train to lisbon, a stuffy academic undergoes a late midlife crisis, impulsively abandoning his comfortable post as a teacher of classical studies in switzerland. Swiss professor raimund gregorius jeremy irons abandons his lectures and buttoneddown life to embark on a thrilling adventure that will take him on a journey to the very heart of himself. The lusitania line runs daily between madrid and lisbon and takes. The trenhotel night train to lisbon is ready to depart on platform 12 of madridchamartin station. Recalling bernhard schlink and nicole krauss in its affirmation of the power of literature, will, and the individual, night train to lisbon is a book of sensual. Amsterdam to lisbon by train encounters between people, it often seems to me, are like trains passing at breakneck speed in the night. Which character as performed by david colacci was your favorite.
Mercier has built his plot on escapist fantasy, and put the portuguese dictator antonio salazars authoritarian regime at the core of his inquiry. A night train to lisbon parallels the book written by the doctor as gregorious reads it as he explores lisbon in search of the man behind the book. We speak about the book that changed our life, the encounter that sent us down a path, the person who turned us around. It is an introspective, self examining, philosophical soul searching journal. A book in which poetry and philosophy are intimately intertwined. The main characters of this fiction, philosophy story are raimund gregorius. Essentially it is the story of an academic raimund gregorius who, on a whim, gives up his lecturing post in bern and takes the train to lisbon. Pascal mercier, quote from night train to lisbon i am still there, at that distant place in time, i never left it, but live expanded in the past, or out of it. As he leafs through it, a train ticket to lisbon, portugal falls out. Raimund gregorius teaches classical languages at a swiss lyce, and lives a life governed by routine.
Night train to lisbon 20, director bille august pascal mercier novel imagination is our last sanctuary pascal mercier peter bieri born 23 june 1944, better known by his pseudonym. He buys a book she was carrying written by a doctor in lisbon. The bookseller remembers the girl purchasing this obscure book. One problem with night train to lisbon is that its plot, if plot is the word for it, consists almost entirely of talktalk, talk, talkabout people and events in the past. An engrossing book that absorbs the reader into the world of its narrator, raimund gregorius, and the life, times and thoughts of its main character amadeu prado. If you are the publisher or author of this book and feel. He packs his bag and takes a night train to lisbon. Jeremy irons and lena olin star in night train to lisbon.
The book was originally published in german as nachtzug nach lissabon in 2004 and was first published in english in 2008. A huge international bestseller, with over 2 million copies sold worldwide, night train to lisbon is an utterly compelling novel about one mans escape from a humdrum life in search of passion and spontaneity. Night train to lisbon is a philosophical novel by swiss writer pascal mercier. Night train to lisbon kindle edition by mercier, pascal, harshav. Lisbon to berlin 8 ways to travel via train, plane, bus. The last sentence he had always feared and from the middle of a book, he had always been tormented by the thought that there would inevitably be a last sentence. Your own sleeper compartment, the couchette car for use by your group or an inexpensive single berth in a multiberth compartment or the seated. Free download or read online night train to lisbon pdf epub book. Night train to lisbon tells the story of mildmannered, middleaged classics scholar raimund gregorius. Trains from lisbon train times, fares, online tickets. The first edition of the novel was published in 2004, and was written by pascal mercier.
I have read about shady sites selling tickets for these overnight train rides, yet when i come across a decent site, i get a message saying to try reserving another night. A small interest grows to an overpowering obsession to find answers about the doctor, himself and life. There is an average of 1 trains a day between lisbon and madrid, leaving approximately every 2j h minutes. Life is not what we live, it is what we imagine living.
1521 871 544 257 1511 416 1283 123 1362 1492 1128 998 938 602 428 884 224 400 1092 664 705 766 79 1089 395 1139 1271 55 1277