Raphaël Jérusalmy
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Français
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Ce témoignage d'un officier du renseignement d'Israël lève pudiquement un coin du voile sur les actions secrètes menées par l'auteur aux quatre coins du monde. Il y a une forte dose d'espoir et de désespoir dans ce livre qui offre une occasion de sortir des lieux communs. Comment la narration d'un parcours militaire au sein de Tsahal se fait œuvre littéraire destructrice de bien des idées préconçues sur l'armée, Israël mais aussi sur...
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English
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A novel of one dying man's act of defiance against the Nazis.
Raphaël Jerusalmy's debut novel takes the form of the journal of Otto J. Steiner, a former music critic of Jewish descent suffering from tuberculosis in a Salzburg sanatorium in 1939. Drained by his illness and isolated in the gloomy sanatorium, Steiner finds solace only in music. He is horrified to learn that the Nazis are transforming a Mozart festival into a fascist event. Steiner...
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English
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The Da Vinci Code meets Stephen Greenblatt's The Swerve in this erudite adventure story set at the dawn of the printed book about the outlaw poet François Villon and the power of words to change the world. François Villon, the world's first poet of modernity, was born in Paris in 1431. He was arrested and condemned to death by hanging in 1462 and exonerated in 1463. Shortly after his release from prison, as far as history is concerned, he disappeared...