Hell
by Henri Barbusse
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Author: Henri BarbusseTranslator: Robert Baldick
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); French (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-06-25
ISBN: 1885983018
Number of pages: 264
Publisher: Turtle Point Press
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- ISBN13: 9781885983015
- Condition: New
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Book Review: "Hell is me, and I'm trapped in myself."
Summary: 5 Stars
The back cover of _Hell_ brashly refers to it as "the most highly focused study of voyeurism ever written". Though one would argue that any great French novel is at least part fetishism, the true purpose of _Hell_ is not to study the watched, but to study how the -watcher- uses this data to explore -himself-. More than anything else, Hell is a book of Solipsist philosophy, and one of the best I've read (not an easy title to gain from this reader, by the way).
Barbusse beautifully illustrates that the only reality anyone may know is that subjective reality within his own heart and mind, and that regardless of the objective world taking place outside, the only one which can possibly matter to the individual is that existence which he personally witnesses:
"I do not know whether the universe has any reality apart from me. What I do know is that its reality occurs only through the instrumentality of my thought, and that in the first place it exists only through the concept I have of it."
A treasure for any collector of fine literature, and a particularly good find for the literary Francophile.
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