Infinite Meeting Point, Paperback Book, By: Mann, Klaus

Considered to be Klaus Mann's first great novel, Point deencontre à l'Infini has never been published in France to this day. A major book in his work, like Mephisto and Le Tournant, it also echoes the committed and far-sighted texts of Against Barbary, and bears the imprint of a generation without landmarks, his . . . that of a Republic of Weimar dying. A novel with a theatrical aesthetic, and tormented writing, Point deencontre à l'Infini stages a host of cosmopolitan characters, all torn between nostalgia and despair, opportunism and spiritual quest. In these pages meet Sebastian, the writer, Sonja, the actress, Gregor Gregori, the dancer, but also dandies, Machiavellian scholars and doctors whom neither the entertainment of the big city nor the hardest drugs can satisfy. Whether you are in Berlin, Paris or Fez, they live next to each other, but all remain stuck in extreme solitude. Except sometimes, the time for a brief meeting endlessly.