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Quando um amigo e colega de combate morre ao tentar salvá-lo, a vida de Larry Darrell muda para sempre. Para o jovem aviador americano, a morte passa então a ter um rosto. O inexorável mistério da morte leva-o a questionar o significado último da frágil condição humana e a embarcar numa obstinada e redentora odisseia espiritual. Ao recusar viver segundo as convenções impostas pela sociedade para buscar o sentido da vida (que encontrará, certa manhã, algures na Índia), Larry torna-se simultaneamente uma frustração para os que o rodeiam - principalmente para Isabel, a namorada, e Elliott, tio desta, que cultivam acima de tudo a aceitação e o prestígio sociais - e a personificação de um ideal de espiritualidade e não-compromisso. Por duas vezes adaptado ao cinema, O Fio da Navalha é um romance intemporal. As ansiedades e dúvidas de Larry são também as nossas; continuamos até hoje a buscar um sentido para a nossa existência. Para encarnar essa luta contra o destino, Somerset Maugham criou um dos mais fascinantes personagens do seu vasto legado literário. Da Primeira à Segunda Guerra Mundial, passando pela Grande Depressão, ele leva-nos, através das sociedades francesa, americana e inglesa, à verdade mais recôndita da alma e do sentimento humanos.
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World War, 1914-1918, Fiction, Veterans, Upper class, Travel, Americans, World War (1914-1918) fast (OCoLC)fst01180746, Yoga, Orientalism, Medicine in Literature, Voyages and travels, Nineteen twenties, Spiritual biography, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Psychology, History, Air pilots, Chang pian xiao shuo, FrenchPlaces
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Razor's Edge, The
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The razor's edge: a novel
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This novel, supposedly based on the life of an acquaintance of Maugham, follows the fortunes of an American pilot who, traumatized by war, rejects his former conventional life to search for a more meaningful existence. After studying in Paris for two years he decides to travel, taking various menial jobs. Although being influenced by some of the people he meets it is not until he reaches India that he begins to find peace.
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