Night Train To Lisbon

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a man's soul (here manifested as a distraught woman speaking a foreign tongue) sends a message of distress that provokes a midlife shift, a repudiation of the world, a turning inward. The author takes us on a long but a wonderful journey full of thoughts and insightful analysis on death, loneliness, courage and friendship looking at the surrounding world through the prism of many people and from a different time perspective. Sensing a kindred spirit in Amadeu, he is suddenly gripped by the fear of not living his life to its full potential. Don't our looks bounce off others, as in the hasty encounter of the night, and leave us with nothing but conjectures, slivers of thoughts and imagined qualities? Mercier’s hero is a dried-up Swiss classics teacher, Raimund (Mundus) Gregorius, whose late-life crisis begins when he encounters a distraught Portuguese woman on a bridge in Bern.

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Da mich die Eigenschaft Beharrlichkeit auszeichnet, wenn nicht zu sagen ich mit Verbissenheit geschlagen bin, habe ich mir jetzt dennoch den Film auch noch reingezogen, und ich war ein kleines bisschen positiv überrascht, wie sehr man einen schlechten Plot durch Umgestaltung der Handlungen in einem Drehbuch noch zum Besseren wenden kann. Die wohlbekannten Schauspieler, teilweise richtige Superstars, spielen sehr gut, Jeremy Irons ist mir zwar ein bisschen zu wenig pingelig Deutsch-Schweizerisch, sondern packt die melancholische Seite seiner fiktiven Figur aus, was sich in meiner Erfahrung von 4 Jahren Arbeit in der Schweiz kein einziger meiner Kollegen und Chefs zugestanden hat, und Bruno Ganz überperformt ein bisschen als Apotheker und Freund von Amadeu, aber das sind Petitessen der Authentizität, die bei den sehr guten Umschreibaktionen des Drehbuchs nicht ins Gewicht fallen.nearer Gregorius comes to the truth of Prado’s passionate commitment, the more insistent becomes the question he asks himself: 'Had he perhaps missed a possible life, one he could easily have lived with his abilities and knowledge? I could even forgive the shockingly bad translation (it has not even been properly proofed or sub-edited and some of the words are just wrongly translated). Night Train to Lisbon is the third novel of Swiss author Peter Bieri, a philosophy professor writing under the pseudonym Pascal Mercier .

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The most cost-effective way to travel on night trains, some services offer carriages with airline style reclining seats. I came across this whole conceit of a character writing “deep” thoughts in her notebook in another book I read: La Petite Chartreuse.Raimund and Mariana both go to the nursing home where her uncle João Eça resides, and Raimund learns João and Amadeu were both in the resistance against the Salazar dictatorship. We are not only furious at the damage, but also that it develops in us all by itself, for while we sit on the edge of the bed with aching temples, the distant catalyst remains untouched by the corrosive force of the anger that eats at us.