Overview
Mari's surreal presentation of 1930s Europe is a riotous, carnivalesque twist on historical fiction: a gothic labyrinth where writers collide with their own phantoms!
Paris, 1936. A chess game is all that keeps Walter Benjamin’s prized literary archive from falling into the maniacal hands of Erich Auerbach. Marc Bloch believes that a recent epidemic of suicides, which has felled countless artists and intellectuals, is in fact the work of uncanny conspirators. Driven to investigate, Bloch and Benjamin delve into the arcades of an otherworldly Paris. What emerges is a carnivalesque pageant of 1930s Europe, of modernism as it teeters into fascism, and of the manifold demons that still haunt the history of literature.
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