The Pawn on the Chessboard
Overview
Ir ne N mirovskyLe Pion sur l' chiquierSet in France during the economic crisis of the nineteen-thirties, Le Pion sur l' chiquier is an unflinching portrait of a man for whom life has lost all meaning. Son of a dying steel magnate whose investments crashed, Christophe Bohun works in an International News Agency and lives together with his dying father, wife, mistress and son, in dilapidated grandeur. At a time of external hardship, he appears to have everything and value nothing. Where his father was driven by a ruthless passion for high finance and his teenage son is eaten up with suppressed anger, N mirovsky presents us with an anti-hero whose bleak interior life is an object lesson in alienation and emotional numbness.
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- ISBN-13: 9781481077095
- ISBN-10: 1481077090
- Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publish Date: January 2013
- Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 0.43 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.46 pounds
- Page Count: 186
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