Used book – Captain, Adrien Bosc

On March 24, 1941, the Capitaine-Paul-Lemerle left the port of Marseille, carrying the outcasts of Vichy France and a Europe in flames: immigrants from Eastern Europe and exiled Spanish republicans, Jews and stateless persons, surrealist writers and decadent artists, scholars and businessmen. This is the time of a novel where, along the Mediterranean coast to Martinique, we meet André Breton, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Anna Seghers, Victor Serge, Wifredo Lam, and so many unknowns, thrown there by the vagaries of agony and chance, from shadow to light. Adrien Bosc resurrects a time of yesterday that also resembles our today. A memory that shines in the moment of peril.

A great book about travel. Le Figaro littéraire.

This literary and human journey results in a dense, profound narrative. La Croix.

A gripping human comedy. Télérama.