by Laurent Gaudé · Actes Sud · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782742791149
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«La Porte des Enfers» is the fantasy novel by Laurent Gaudé, published by Actes Sud in paperback (272 pages, in French).
After the death of his son in a shooting in Naples, taxi driver Matteo drives through the city streets at night, consumed by grief. In a small café he meets Professor Provolone, who claims that hell exists and that one can descend into it. The novel weaves together grief, myth and fantasy around the hope of rescuing a loved one from oblivion.
The novel was originally published in 2008; this French edition is part of the Babel collection (number 1015) and came out in 2010.
For readers of Laurent Gaudé and contemporary French fiction that combines realism and myth.
Laurent Gaudé is a French writer.
