And as always, I'm left knowing that I will read more by him, but not feeling in any particular rush to do so.I haven’t read Furst before, and picked this up because it was on sale. This one is set in France, from May, 1940 to June 1941. The loose societal and moral restraints of the French population, once under German control, became easy footholds for intrigues of many kinds. Casson is a divorced member of the creative class in Paris, living a hedonistic life without much direction. With 'The World at Night', Furst is able to again relate the way WWII impacted typical Europeans in ways that most fiction and nonfiction writers who focus on Europe's second world war seem to often miss or overlook. Since I have an affinity for flawed, conflicted characters, and Jean is nothing if not flawed and conflicted, I'm surprised the book didn't work for me on this level. Children would be born, bakers would make bread, lovers would make love, dinner parties would be given, and, in that way, France would go on being France. The data was acquired over nine days in April 2012 and 13 days in October 2012. . Jean Casson is a French filmmaker.
Wish I could be more specific. What Furst has created is an evocative exploration of what it was like to lose your country, way of life and future and then to have to continue living. A conflicted man, with some noble underpinnings gets drawn over his head into a world of intrigue that he only vaguely understands it.
I wasn't particularly enamoured of the main character Jean Casson, French producer and would be spy. And the whole bombing-the-factory thing ... what exactly did the Nazi's want him to do? This is one of the best of the bunch. Jean Casson becomes increasingly detached from his former identity but begins to grow into a new one.In Nazi occupied Paris, film producer Jean Casson is drawn into the Resistance and reconnects with his lost love, Citrine.
The protagonist never seems to be in control of his own story.
That may be the downfall of this novel, though it is still enjoyable and obviously well-written.
[More] He is a master of the dark and brooding atmosphere pervading Europe as the Nazis advance. I was born the year after the war ended so I really don't know first hand what that feel is, but to me, and the professional reviewers, it is the atmosphere one gets when watching movies such as A swathe of sex scenes interspersed by ineffectual spying.Smart comfort food for those who like spy novels grounded in far more realism than Robert Ludlum, though less than John LeCarre. This book starts out slow, showing Jean as an ordinary man, drawn into extraordinary actions by the war.
January 8th 2002 Watch trailers & learn more. Alan Furst is simply the best writer of thrillers around today. Or did that just happen "offstage"? This is not the silly Robert Ludlum type of spy novel, in other words.
The largest impacts they have are on Casson's love life, and his chance of survival. What Furst has created is an evocative exploration of what it was like to lose your country, way of life and future and then to have to continue living. A business acquaintance involves him in an intrigue meant to be Casson’s bit to aid the Resistance but it goes wrong and leads to both the British and the Germans suspecting him even as they recruit him as an agent. His heroes are are mature, world weary men about town who have no ambitions to be heroes, but have a sense of honor that nonetheless propels them onto the heroic path.Alan Furst has written fourteen books (soon to be fifteen) set in Europe in the 1930s and 1940s. I like this author's spy books. Gradually things change undeAlan Furst has written fourteen books (soon to be fifteen) set in Europe in the 1930s and 1940s. After the Nazis defeat the French, he returns to France and tries to rebuild his life under occupation.A French film producer enlists with the French army to protect France.
There is a pervading gloom around Paris but, as Casson observes, one must survive.
Before long he is back in Paris trying to locate a normal life within occupied France.
Furst is an expert in capturing the feel of pre and early WWII. Into the mix is the re-kindled flames of a former romance, complicating the highly shadowed and deeply uncertain world Casson lives in. . Auroras dance across the polar skies. As always, the atmosphere is good, the characters interesting, the plotting slow but engaging.
To a certain extent, they are all similar. This image of the continental United States at night is a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi NPP satellite in April and October 2012. He is a reluctant hero who is drawn into the secret war against the Nazi occupiers of France. A conflicted man, with some noble underpinnings gets drawn over his head into a world of intrigue that he only vaguely understands it. Eventually you start to care about the characters, but the second half of the book is better than the first.You can always get lost in a novel by Alan Furst. Where a Ludlum or (these days) a Patterson gives you a clunky, dropped-in sentence of superficial "color," which, if you have half a brain in your head, you feel sure his assistant dug up on Google in two minutes of research, Furst gives you a whole world of both emotional and physical detail, a world that is the result of painstaking research into primary sources. Since I have an affinity for flawed, conflicted characters, and Jean is nothing if not flawed and conflicted, I'm surprised the book didn't work for me on this level. As if it didn’t already occur.The historian in me loves the World War II mysteries by Alan Furst. It orbits the Earth and has sensors that collect observations about Earth's atmosphere and surface during night time hours. "The night is nowhere as dark as we might think," Miller said. He was far too naive and self centred for his role here.
The World at Night is a very satisfying read.In the front of the book there was a short section containing professional reviews. And what exactly did British Intelligence want him to do? Film producer Jean-Claude Casson is in need of money and a script to make his next movie but both are in short supply.
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