Night Train to Lisbon - Pascal Mercier
🎙️ Radio Narration: Night Train to Lisbon "Given that we can live only a small part of what there is in us—what happens with the rest?" Tonight, we board the Night Train to Lisbon —not simply a train across countries, but a journey through memory, identity, and the unspoken depths of a human life. The author behind this literary voyage is Pascal Mercier , the pen name of Peter Bieri, a Swiss writer and philosopher born in Bern in 1944. Before turning to fiction, Bieri made his name as a professor of philosophy , writing on the nature of mind, freedom, and human consciousness. When he turned to literature, he brought with him this philosophical lens— layering his stories with reflections that linger long after the last page. Published in 2004, Night Train to Lisbon became an international sensation , translated into over a dozen languages, and praised for its quiet intensity. Critics have called it “a philosophical feast” and “a hymn to curiosity and the unexamined life.”...