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The less-than-innocents abroad in these daring short novels are Americans in Europe, involved in what turn out to be pleasure tours of hell: shocking, bewildering trips that change forever their ideas about history, reality, politics, sex - their entire lives. In the title novella, Landau, a third-rate American playwright, attends a literary conference in Prague, where an organized group excursion to a former concentration camp degenerates into a battle of wills and an exercise in egomania and public humiliation. Nina, the heroine of the second novella, "Three Pigs in Five Days, " is sent to Paris to write an article for her lover's travel journal - a dizzying, erotic pilgrimage that forces her to see how sex has distorted her view of the world.
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Guided Tours of Hell, Francine Prose
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1997
- Einband
- (Paperback)
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- Titel
- Guided Tours of Hell
- Untertitel
- Novellas
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Francine Prose
- Verlag
- Henry Holt & Co
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1997
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 224
- ISBN10
- 080505586X
- ISBN13
- 9780805055863
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Gegenwartsliteratur, Kurzgeschichten, Literarische Fiktion, Novellen, Holocaust
- Bewertung
- 3,45 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- The less-than-innocents abroad in these daring short novels are Americans in Europe, involved in what turn out to be pleasure tours of hell: shocking, bewildering trips that change forever their ideas about history, reality, politics, sex - their entire lives. In the title novella, Landau, a third-rate American playwright, attends a literary conference in Prague, where an organized group excursion to a former concentration camp degenerates into a battle of wills and an exercise in egomania and public humiliation. Nina, the heroine of the second novella, "Three Pigs in Five Days, " is sent to Paris to write an article for her lover's travel journal - a dizzying, erotic pilgrimage that forces her to see how sex has distorted her view of the world.