Translated from the French by Eric Sutton.

    He is the one who sent her on the mission that led to her death, and before morning, he must ultimately decide how many others to send to a similar fate.

    It became a cult novel amongst the surrealists, gaining an almost mythic status as the masterpiece of the French Kafka. It inhabits a nighttime world where dream and reality are indistinguishable. A novel about vision, dream and reality. Its hero is the human eye and Marcel Adrien. He sees the sign of an ophthalmologist and enters to inquire about having his eyes tested and finds that he is expected. Dr Fohat has files on his future clients and diagnoses myopia and prescribes dark glasses and a treatment of pills to be taken after twelve hours of work on an empty stomach.

    Modern Library volume 98 edited by Saxe Commins.

    He reveals what it was like to be hunted day and night by the Gestapo and vividly describes the incredible risks run by ordinary French men and women.