Title : The Quarter - Nikos Kavvadias - Book

Summary :

I would like my bones to be forgotten too, but in a brothel. And that women use them as nozzles for their beers, as cigarette holders, as whistles." A modern odyssey of total darkness, The Watch recounts the wanderings of an ageless vessel, en route to China. A floating coffin, the cargo ship and its crew sail endlessly towards other ports, other raids, other brothels and other whores. Between two stopovers, the Greek sailors on board shamelessly reveal their miserable lives to us; they rehash their adventures, their loves, their failures, with abysmal bitterness and melancholy. A masterpiece published in 1954, the novel by the Greek poet Nikos Kavvadias speaks of human absurdity but also and above all of the sea, this mythical place that, from Conrad to Cendrars, no one has described so well as he.

• EAN: 9782070359479
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