Set against the backdrop of Europe's slide into Fascism, Blue of Noon is a blackly compelling account of depravity and violence. As its narrator lurches despairingly from city to city in a surreal sexual and mental nightmare of squalor, sadism and drunken encounters, his internal collapse mirrors the fighting and marching on the streets outside. Exploring the dark forces beneath the surface of civilization, this is a novel torn between identifying with history's victims and being seduced by the monstrous glamour of its terrible victors, and is one of the twentieth century's great nihilist works.
- ISBN10 0714530735
- ISBN13 9780714530734
- Publish Date 20 June 2006 (first published February 1986)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 March 2014
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 129
- Language English