John leonard,harpers magazine celebrates the beauty and allure of language. Inside it is a book by a portuguese doctor which contains a train ticket. Raimund gregorius is a legendary and nearinfallible figure in that small world, dedicated entirely to his work, interested only in his greek and latin and hebrew. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading night train to lisbon. The story he recounts is mainly a romantic one, and also contains a lot of action with arrests, escapes.
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Prado is a serious thinker whose active mind becomes evident in a series of his notes collected and read by. It is stamped with the address of the bookstore, so he goes there. Raimund gregorius teaches classical languages at a swiss lycee, and lives a life governed by routine. This might be more suited to a sunday afternoon tv slot, but i have a soft spot for. 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. 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. A small interest grows to an overpowering obsession to find answers about the doctor, himself and life.
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