Las Últimas Noches de París

One of the most beautiful and enigmatic novels by Soupault, it is one of the first novels in which the urban landscape acts as a character. In every moment, Paris reveals itself through outcroppings of characters, stylized version of beggars and intellectuals as a city threatened by an incessant, dreary downpour and by the fire of a new Nero who dreams of replicating Rome. Intrigue dissolves into undecipherable signs as characters stumble along and the anonymous narrator waits for a catastrophic indecision that will permit his freedom from a terrible agreement.