Author: María Angeles Aurteneche Legardón
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Etude sur Les racines du ciel de Romain Gary
Author: María Angeles Aurteneche Legardón
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Romain Gary
Author: David Bellos
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 144640286X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Airman, war hero, immigrant, law student, diplomat, novelist and celebrity spouse, Romain Gary had several lives thrust upon him by the history of the twentieth century, but he also aspired to lead many more. He wrote more than two dozen books and a score of short stories under several different names in two languages, English and French, neither of which was his mother tongue. Gary had a gift for narrative that endeared him to ordinary readers, but won him little respect among critics far more intellectual than he could ever be. His varied and entertaining writing career tells a different story about the making of modern literary culture from the one we are accustomed to hearing. Born Roman Kacew in Vilna (now Lithuania) in 1914 and raised by only his mother after his father left them, Gary rose to become French Consul General in Los Angeles and the only man ever to win the Goncourt Prize twice. This biography follows the many threads that lead from Gary's wartime adventures and early literary career to his years in Hollywood and his marriage to the actress Jean Seberg. It illuminates his works in all their incarnations, and culminates in the tale of his most brilliant deception: the fabrication of a complex identity for his most successful nom de plume, Émile Ajar. In his new portrait of Gary, David Bellos brings biographical research together with literary and cultural analysis to make sense of the many lives of Romain Gary - a hero fit for our times, as well as his own.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 144640286X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Airman, war hero, immigrant, law student, diplomat, novelist and celebrity spouse, Romain Gary had several lives thrust upon him by the history of the twentieth century, but he also aspired to lead many more. He wrote more than two dozen books and a score of short stories under several different names in two languages, English and French, neither of which was his mother tongue. Gary had a gift for narrative that endeared him to ordinary readers, but won him little respect among critics far more intellectual than he could ever be. His varied and entertaining writing career tells a different story about the making of modern literary culture from the one we are accustomed to hearing. Born Roman Kacew in Vilna (now Lithuania) in 1914 and raised by only his mother after his father left them, Gary rose to become French Consul General in Los Angeles and the only man ever to win the Goncourt Prize twice. This biography follows the many threads that lead from Gary's wartime adventures and early literary career to his years in Hollywood and his marriage to the actress Jean Seberg. It illuminates his works in all their incarnations, and culminates in the tale of his most brilliant deception: the fabrication of a complex identity for his most successful nom de plume, Émile Ajar. In his new portrait of Gary, David Bellos brings biographical research together with literary and cultural analysis to make sense of the many lives of Romain Gary - a hero fit for our times, as well as his own.
National Union Catalog
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 656
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Includes entries for maps and atlases.
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
The National Union Catalogs, 1963-
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 654
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 654
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Livres disponibles 1996
Author: Electre
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ISBN: 9782765405986
Category : French imprints
Languages : fr
Pages : 1440
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ISBN: 9782765405986
Category : French imprints
Languages : fr
Pages : 1440
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Library Bulletin
Author: Balme Library
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 666
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 666
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General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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Promise at Dawn
Author: Romain Gary
Publisher: New Directions
ISBN: 9780811210164
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
The author recounts the special relationship he had with his mother and explains how he worked to achieve the many goals and accomplishments she expected of him
Publisher: New Directions
ISBN: 9780811210164
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
The author recounts the special relationship he had with his mother and explains how he worked to achieve the many goals and accomplishments she expected of him
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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Dalhousie French Studies
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Category : French language
Languages : fr
Pages : 740
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Category : French language
Languages : fr
Pages : 740
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