by Pierre Mertens · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782020097239
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«Les éblouissements» is the biographical novel by Pierre Mertens, published by Seuil in paperback (379 pages, in French).
Biographical novel that traces seven moments in the life of German Expressionist poet Gottfried Benn (1886-1956), a physician and author of the poetry collection Morgue. The narrative covers his experience in the Great War in Brussels, his contact with human misery and his drift towards Nazism, up to his subsequent silence and rehabilitation.
Novel winner of the 1987 Prix Médicis and part of Seuil's Fiction & Cie collection, where it appears as number 93.
Recommended for readers of biographical fiction and those interested in twentieth-century European intellectual history and French literature.
Pierre Mertens was a Belgian writer and lawyer who specialised in international law, director of the Centre de sociologie de la littérature at the Université libre de Bruxelles, and literary critic with the newspaper Le Soir.
