Hocus Bogus
A Fiction, Novels, European Literature book. , , . , . , . Romain Gary, Pseudo //
By the early 1970s, Romain Gary had established himself as one of France’s most popular and prolific novelists, journalists, and memoirists. Feeling that he had been typecast as “Romain Gary,” however, he wrote his next novel under the pseudonym Émile Ajar. His second novel written as Ajar, Life Before Us, was an instant runaway success, winning the Prix Goncourt and becoming the best-selling French novel of the twentieth century.The Prix Goncourt made people all the keener to identify the real “Émile Ajar,” and stressed by the furor he had created, Gary fled to Geneva. There, Pseudo, a hoax confession and one of the most alarmingly effective mystifications in all literature, was written at high speed. Writing under double cover, Gary simulated schizophrenia and paranoid delusions while pretending to be Paul Pawlovitch confessing to being Émile Ajar—the author of...
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- Pages: 224 pages
- ISBN: 9780300149760 / 0
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All the same I keep on looking for someone incomprehensible who won't understand me either, because I have a terrible thirst for brotherhood Romain Gary, Hocus Bogus // The only possible answers are questions. Real Vikings are questions. The answers are what the Vikings chanted during the voyage to keep their spirits up. Romain Gary, Hocus Bogus // All men have a legend because of death. Humanity wasn't legendary any longer: it was a myth. Romain Gary, Hocus Bogus //
kendime not: kitaplar yazl srasna gre okumak daha mantkl bir eylem. This is a Byzantine labyrinth of a book, written by French author Romain Gary (1914-1980) using a pseudonym Emile Ajar, and portraying Ajar as his schizophrenic nephew whose real name is Paul Pawlovich. The original title of this book was Pseudo; and this English translation by David Bellos has been titled Hocus Bogus to further complicate... Ne prend tout son sens qu'en ayant lu d'autres Gary.
