This was Jean's book. Roger gave it to me. I opened it to page 383 and read ..."You have no idea how difficult it has been for me to come back, even for a few short hours, for I can't hold very long." I was comforted. It felt as if Jean reached out to me when I needed comforting after her death. ( )

Le film d'Hathaway réalisé en1935 emporta l'admiration des surréalistes et conduisit à la traduction du roman qui était sorti en 1891 et à sa publication par Gallimard dans une traduction de Raymond Queneau en 1946.
Dans la manière de XIXe, l'introduction est signée par un personnage du roman qui a recueilli les mémoires de son cousin. Ce qui ajoute à l'aspect fantastique du texte, le récit d'un amour fou.

This was a mid 19th century novel . Peter moves from England to Paris where his new name is Pierre at the age of 5. His father is spaced-out, for some unknown reason. His mother was a very devoted wife and mother. When Pierre was 12 his father dies in an explosion and his mother dies a week later giving birth to a stillborn baby. A relative of Pierre's arrives from England to take custody of Pierre. The Colonel gives Peter his name, hence Peter Ibbetson. From there the book goes downhill quickly. Peter dreams each night (in between work and going back to Paris) I wasn't really sure what were dreams and what really happened; although Peter did die in prison while writing about the process of "real" dreaming. I was initially attracted to this book because the description said it contained 84 pencil sketches. However, the Kindle publication was missing these sketches. 220 pages ( )

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