{"product_id":"hell-9781885983015","title":"Hell","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"No one who has ever read this remarkable novel and looked at human life through Barbusse's peephole can ever forget the experience.\"--Robert Baldick \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"It is Barbusse, not Gide, not Proust and not Maurois whose work marks the great turning point in French twentieth-century literature.\"--Jean Favrille \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eHell\u003c\/i\u003e is the most highly focused study of voyeurism ever written. A young man staying in a Paris boarding house finds a hole in the wall above his bed. Through this he obsessively studies the private moments and secret activities of his neighbors. Marriage, adultery, lesbianism, religion and death are all seen through this small spy hole. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDecades ahead of its time \u003ci\u003eHell\u003c\/i\u003e shocked and scandalized the reviewing public when first released in English. Even so, \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e praised \"the beauty of the book's nervous yet fluid rhythms. . . . Every simile is faultlessly keyed. The book sweeps away life's illusions.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Turtle Point Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781885983015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 255\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.76lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.52h x 5.50w x 0.69d","brand":"Henri Barbusse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36669965271196,"sku":"9781885983015","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_9dbb099e-567b-4e87-bd81-3791448b1a81.jpg?v=1603921502","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/hell-9781885983015","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}