Outrageous Horizon (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781788162746)

March 1941. A converted cargo ship, the Paul-Lemerle, left Marseille on a voyage to the Caribbean, fleeing Vichy France and the devastation of the war. The ship was filled with immigrants from the East, exiled Spanish Republicans, Jews, stateless persons and decadent artists. Among them were Claude Lévi-Strauss, the painter Wifredo Lam, the writers Anna Seghers and André Breton, and the Russian revolutionary Victor Serge. Can we know the taste of pineapple from listening to travellers' tales? asks Bosc in the follow-up to his bestselling debut. Can we ever feel the sensation of history? Mixing the documentary techniques of history, the imaginative leaps of fiction and the cool analysis of the essay, Bosc takes us from Marseille to Casablanca to Martinique and on to New York, to tell an evocative story of migration, cultural crisis and the intellectual cost of the rise of fascism.

Author: Adrien Bosc
ISBN-10: 1788162749
ISBN-13: 9781788162746
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Language: English
Published: 11/08/2022
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.10w x 0.70d