years later night train to lisbon by swiss author messiaen was also turned into a film starring jeremy rampling and christopher lee amongst others the book and the film tells the story of an unassuming professor who spontaneously embarks on a dating. adventure is all man of letters david leavitt's with mole. what do you do when you see a woman who's about to jump off a bridge do you run to her call the police. take a selfie try to help her. and. that's the beginning of pasco massy is novel night train to lisbon sounds like a psychological thriller maybe a love story. nope it's a story of a latin and greek teacher a name that i wonder could go over us for stumbles upon a portuguese memoir and it he finds a question that will change his life. given we can only live in a small part of what there is in us what happens with the raft. goriest decides to discover the parts of his life he's left on lived he goes on a quest to find the man who wrote those lines he takes the night train to lisbon. he gets to know the city and immerses himself in the history of portugal dictatorship for goriest it's an em