Marseille under German occupation, anyone who wants to leave fascist Europe ends up here: why did Jean Malaquais’ exile novel “Planet ohne Visa” remain unknown for so long?
Such coincidences: A translator spends her holidays in Marseille, looks for a novel about the city in a bookstore and discovers “Planète sans visa”. She doesn’t know the author, she only grabs it because she and a friend experienced what it means to have the wrong passport.