La cerca

La cerca - Jean Rolin - Sexto Piso
Publisher name: 
Sexto Piso
Year of publication: 
2012
Pages: 
176
Book size:
17x23cm
Binding: 
Rustic

Jean Rolin embarks on a double project in the area of ​​Paris bounded by Boulevard Ney and Rue Clôture. On the one hand, he recalls the figure of the eccentric Napoleonic Marshal Michel Ney - a key figure in understanding the battle of Waterloo- and, At the same time, to narrate his own campaign among the forgotten slums of contemporary Paris. Marshal Ney appears as a mixture of hero and abject character, who saves his army from a defeat that conspires against the Emperor, until finally is shot by treason on December 7, 1815, at nine o'clock in the morning. On the other hand, the population of prostitutes, refugee immigrants and vagabonds who inhabit this Parisian ghetto are doomed from the start to wander their streets looking for ways to survive. With Ney's adventures as background, Rolin narrates the murder of a Bulgarian prostitute, who shocks society to the degree that the media ...read more

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Book: La cerca

ISBN: 9788415601098
$100.00