Palimpsest

Nous sommes à Thessalonique en 96 après J.
-C. , lorsque d'étranges personnages font irruption dans la vie de Timothée, évêque de Macédoine, ex-secrétaire et petit ami de saint Paul. Ils le pressent d'écrire sa version de l'Histoire sainte, car, loin dans le futur, un cyberpunk, appelé le Pirate, est en train de falsifier ou d'effacer toutes les bandes et tous les volumes contenant les Évangiles ; seul celui de Timothée serait à l'abri du terrifiant virus informatique.
Simultanément, grâce à l'intervention de nouveaux logiciels, une équipe de techniciens de NBC s'apprête à remonter le temps pour filmer la Crucifixion en direct du Golgotha. Sous la plume de Timothée, le lecteur ahuri découvre un saint Paul bonimenteur et homosexuel, inventeur des claquettes et du rap, un saint Jacques résolument plus juif que chrétien, un Jésus obèse et boulimique.

En direct du golgotha

En direct du Golgotha - Occasion

Hollywood

Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to the post-World War II years. With their broad canvas and large cast of fictional and historical characters, the novels in this series present a panorama of the American political and imperial experience as interpreted by one of its most worldly, knowing, and ironic observers. Burr is a portrait of perhaps the most complex and misunderstood of the Founding Fathers. In 1804, while serving as vice president, Aaron Burr fought a duel with his political nemesis, Alexander Hamilton, and killed him. In 1807, he was arrested, tried, and acquitted of treason. In 1833, Burr is newly married, an aging statesman considered a monster by many. Burr retains much of his political influence if not the respect of all. And he is determined to tell his own story. As his amanuensis, he chooses Charles Schermerhorn Schuyler, a young New York City journalist, and together they explore both Burr's past and the continuing political intrigues of the still young United States.

Burr: l'irrésistible ascension d'Aaron Burr, vice-président des Etats-Unis

L'auteur relate les 29 premières années de sa vie en convoquant ses souvenirs et les figures de sa jeunesse sans souci de chronologie. Ce portrait d'un écrivain à succès, petit-fils de sénateur, ami des Kennedy, d'Anaïs Nin et de Tennessee Williams, constitue une réflexion sur l'Amérique et ses moeurs mais aussi sur l'homosexualité.

Palimpseste : mémoires

The remarkable bestseller about the fourth-century Roman emperor who famously tried to halt the spread of Christianity, Julian is widely regarded as one of Gore Vidal’s finest historical novels.Julian the Apostate, nephew of Constantine the Great, was one of the brightest yet briefest lights in the history of the Roman Empire. A military genius on the level of Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great, a graceful and persuasive essayist, and a philosopher devoted to worshiping the gods of Hellenism, he became embroiled in a fierce intellectual war with Christianity that provoked his murder at the age of thirty-two, only four years into his brilliantly humane and compassionate reign. A marvelously imaginative and insightful novel of classical antiquity, Julian captures the religious and political ferment of a desperate age and restores with blazing wit and vigor the legacy of an impassioned ruler.

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