Les Nouvelles Confessions

Autor*innen

• William Boyd

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• 622 Seiten
• 22 Lesestunden

• Belletristik
• Gegenwartsliteratur
• Historische Romane

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‘This is what I have done and this is what has been done to me…’ Thus begins the extraordinary, candid story of John James Todd, a Scotsman born in 1899, who presents himself as one of the great self-appointed geniuses of the twentieth century. His life is marked by an astonishingly rich and diverse career, filled with remarkable successes and dramatic failures. Narrated in his own words from the perspective of not-so-serene old age and self-imposed exile, Todd reveals the secrets of his fraught and intriguing existence. Starting with his bizarre boyhood and schooldays in Scotland, we follow his incredible experiences during the First World War, his time in 1920s Berlin, and his journey through Mexico in 1939. The narrative continues through the Allied invasion of St. Tropez and the McCarthy era in Los Angeles. Todd is portrayed as charming yet exasperating, shrewd yet foolish, vain yet disarmingly straightforward. While we may question some of his accounts, he ultimately concludes, ‘I have done all that being-human business, all right.’ As we delve into Todd's astonishing life, we trace one individual's erratic path through the chaos of the century, discovering curious facts about Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the art of making the perfect dry martini along the way.

• Sprache: Französisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1988
• Einband: Paperback