Contes de la nuit
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9782020367646 (2020367645)
Publish date: August 8th 2003
Publisher: Seuil
Pages no: 285
Edition language: French
"The great systems that inform the world about the truth and life invariably claim to be absolutely truthful and well-balanced. In reality they are quaking bridges built out of yearning." Thus, the protagonist of this short story collection's last entry, Reflection of a Young Man in Balance, sums up...
Before he became an author Peter Høeg was a dancer, an actor, a fencer, a sailor, and a mountaineer. His experiences in those fields are apparent in this collection of eight short stories which are "concerned with love. Love and its conditions on the night of 19 March 1929." When I first read Tales ...