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Ship of Fools is a 1962 novel by Katherine Anne Porter, telling the tale of a group of disparate characters sailing from Mexico to Europe aboard a German passenger ship. The large cast of characters includes Germans, Mexicans, Americans, Spaniards, a group of Cuban medical students, a Swiss family, and a Swede.
Ship of Fools. Katherine Anne Porter. 3.67. 2,774 ratings332 reviews. The story takes place in the summer of 1931, on board a cruise ship bound for Germany. Passengers include a Spanish noblewoman, a drunken German lawyer, an American divorcee, a pair of Mexican Catholic priests.
Ship of Fools, novel by Katherine Anne Porter, published in 1962. Porter used as a framework Das Narrenschiff (1494; The Ship of Fools), by Sebastian Brant, a satire in which the world is likened to a ship whose passengers, fools and deranged people all, are sailing toward eternity.
30. Mai 1984 · The classic bestseller from the Pulitzer Prize winner dramatizes the rise of totalitarianism in the 1930s in a sweeping story of a transatlantic cruise featuring a cast of unforgettable characters, The story takes place in the summer of 1931, on board a cruise ship bound for Germany.
- Katherine Anne Porter
4. März 2015 · The ship in Katherine Anne Porter’s novel is the Vera a German vessel carrying both passengers and freight from Veracruz to Bremerhaven, via Spain, in the autumn of 1931. Many of the passengers are German, returning home after years of self-imposed exile in Mexico. Cast of characters.
Katherine Anne Porter. Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated, 1972 - Fiction. The story takes place in the summer of 1931, on board a cruise ship bound for Germany. Passengers include a Spanish...
28. Apr. 2015 · Ship of Fools: A Novel. Katherine Anne Porter. Open Road Media, Apr 28, 2015 - Fiction - 503 pages. This “dazzling” National Book Award finalist set aboard an ocean liner in 1931 reflects the...
