A Journey to Nowhere: Among the Lands and History of Courland - Couverture souple

Kauffmann, Jean-Paul

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1782062424 ISBN 13 : 9781782062424

Editeur : MacLehose Press, 2013

Synopsis

Courland is an entity that no longer exists. With the Gulf of Riga to the north, the Baltic to the west and Lithuania at its southern border, and now part of modern Latvia, the region was occupied by Nazi Germany and returned to Soviet Russia after the war, remaining largely inaccessible until 1991.

It is now a nowhere land of wide skies and forests, deserted beaches, ruined castles and ex-KGB prisons. For years Jean-Paul Kauffmann has been irresistibly drawn to this buffer between the Germanic and Slav worlds. His digressive travels at the wheel of a Skoda become an investigation into the whereabouts of a former lover, a search for an excavator of tombs, and a journey in the footsteps of Louis XVIII, for whom Courland was once a place of exile.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Jean-Paul Kauffmann is the author of The Dark Room at Longwood (1999), an exploration of Napoleon's exile on St Helena, Desolation Island (2001) and Wrestling with the Angel (2003). He was a journalist until 1985, when he was kidnapped in Beirut and only released three years later. Since then he has been editor of both Amateur de Bordeaux and Amateur de Cigare magazines.

Euan Cameron is an editor and translator. Madeleine is his first novel. He worked in book publishing and as a literary journalist for many years before becoming a translator from French. His translations include works by Julien Green, Paul Morand, Simone de Beauvoir, Patrick Modiano and Philippe Claudel, as well as biographies of Marcel Proust and Irène
Némirovsky. He was appointed Chevalier dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2011.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: MacLehose Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1782062424
• ISBN 13: 9781782062424
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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