A young man spies on his neighbours through a crack in the wall in his Paris hotel. He witnesses every aspect of life, love, birth, betrayal and death. A fascinating and scandalous account of watching life go by.
Henri Barbusse (1873-1935) was a French novelist and active member of the French Communist Party. A WWI veteran, Barbusse became popular upon the 1916 release of his first novel, Le Feu. Later, he moved to Moscow and joined the Bolshevik Party, spending the rest of his life in the Soviet Union and France.
