The Kites
Autor Romain Gary Traducere de Miranda Richmond Mouilloten Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 sep 2019
Filled with unforgettable characters who fling all they have into the fight to keep their hopes--and themselves--alive, The Kites is Romain Gary's poetic call for resistance in whatever form it takes. A war hero himself, Gary embraced and fought for humanity in all its nuanced complexities, in the belief that a hero might be anyone who has the courage to love and hope.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780811229203
ISBN-10: 0811229203
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 136 x 203 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN-10: 0811229203
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 136 x 203 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: New Directions Publishing Corporation
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Notă biografică
Romain
Garywas
one
of
the
most
important
French
writers
of
the
20th
century.
He
won
the
once-in-a-lifetime
honour
thePrix
Goncourttwice,
the
only
person
ever
to
have
done
so,
by
writing
under
a
secretnom
de
plume.
He
was
married
to
the
American
actress
Jean
Seberg
and
served
in
the
RAF
during
WW2.
He
died
in
Paris
in
1980
from
a
self-inflicted
gunshot
wound,
shortly
after
completing
this
haunting
last
work.
Recenzii
The
Kitesis
indeed
a
treasure,
capable
of
accessing
an
enormous
node
of
insight
and
almost-overwhelming
beauty
spliced
with
bittersweet
candor...
we
are
lucky
to
have
it
at
last.
We're
going
to
need
it.
This final work by a maverick genius of modern French fiction tells a story of love and war that's both charming and moving. It's a perfect introduction to the unique imagination of Romain Gary
Romain Gary has created a gallery of heroes who are willing to die for liberty but have to settle for the lesser victory of self-knowledge
A major literary star ... whose life was stranger than fiction
A rebel French writer ... a brilliant storyteller, a master craftsman and one of France's most original writers
What talent, most certainly, how many ideas and passions too. You seize us and shake us. Ah!
What a gold mine!
A truly beautiful novel
Gary is brilliant at capturing the existential emotion for which the title of "The Kites" is an obvious metaphor -- sky-bound yet tethered by that string.
More than a humorist, more than a storyteller, he's amoralist, an independent and significant student of the struggle to tell right from wrong, good conduct from bad. This struggle took place within a life that was, as people like to say, itself as good a story as any novel that he wrote
An extraordinary novel about lost love, memory, resistance to tyranny and individual lives caught up in the rush of history
What struck me the most on readingThe Kiteswas the energy and fervour needed to write such a text at a time when the author was so close to ending his own life. How do you create such an explosion of life and love when you are overwhelmed with the desire to die?The Kitesis a novel touched from beginning to end with grace, a great saga about the innate dignity of love that succeeds in the feat of being funny and poetic, tender and sharp, committed and fierce, with a touch of brilliance in the art of dialogue and situations that avoid the twofold temptation of sentimentality and moral lesson.He mixes the spirit of childhood with the acute intelligence of the mature man. He utilises frivolity and virtuous irony to give the tragedy of life its depth and greatness - and this eloquence, this taste for language and beauty in the shadow of death demonstrates the power of literature. So, after having mixed with a memorable crowd of truculent, touching, spectacular and comical characters, you finish the text with a lingering feeling of enchantment in spite of all the bereavements and adversities.
What emerges, overwhelmingly, is the sense that, in Gary's hands, fiction itself is a form of resistance.
A hugely enjoyable read
Captures [Romain Gary's] slightly absurd gallantry, his humor and compassion, and his love of all things French.
We can weep while reading this joyful novel
This final work by a maverick genius of modern French fiction tells a story of love and war that's both charming and moving. It's a perfect introduction to the unique imagination of Romain Gary
Romain Gary has created a gallery of heroes who are willing to die for liberty but have to settle for the lesser victory of self-knowledge
A major literary star ... whose life was stranger than fiction
A rebel French writer ... a brilliant storyteller, a master craftsman and one of France's most original writers
What talent, most certainly, how many ideas and passions too. You seize us and shake us. Ah!
What a gold mine!
A truly beautiful novel
Gary is brilliant at capturing the existential emotion for which the title of "The Kites" is an obvious metaphor -- sky-bound yet tethered by that string.
More than a humorist, more than a storyteller, he's amoralist, an independent and significant student of the struggle to tell right from wrong, good conduct from bad. This struggle took place within a life that was, as people like to say, itself as good a story as any novel that he wrote
An extraordinary novel about lost love, memory, resistance to tyranny and individual lives caught up in the rush of history
What struck me the most on readingThe Kiteswas the energy and fervour needed to write such a text at a time when the author was so close to ending his own life. How do you create such an explosion of life and love when you are overwhelmed with the desire to die?The Kitesis a novel touched from beginning to end with grace, a great saga about the innate dignity of love that succeeds in the feat of being funny and poetic, tender and sharp, committed and fierce, with a touch of brilliance in the art of dialogue and situations that avoid the twofold temptation of sentimentality and moral lesson.He mixes the spirit of childhood with the acute intelligence of the mature man. He utilises frivolity and virtuous irony to give the tragedy of life its depth and greatness - and this eloquence, this taste for language and beauty in the shadow of death demonstrates the power of literature. So, after having mixed with a memorable crowd of truculent, touching, spectacular and comical characters, you finish the text with a lingering feeling of enchantment in spite of all the bereavements and adversities.
What emerges, overwhelmingly, is the sense that, in Gary's hands, fiction itself is a form of resistance.
A hugely enjoyable read
Captures [Romain Gary's] slightly absurd gallantry, his humor and compassion, and his love of all things French.
We can weep while reading this joyful novel