Vidal's historical novel set in the 5th century BC and narrated by Cyrus Spitama, son of a Persian prince and Greek sorceress, grandson of the prophet Zoroaster, and ambassador to the courts of India, China and Greece. Pericles, Thucydides, Sophocles and Confucius are among the book's characters.

CREATION

Gore Vidal's new collection of essays shows him still writing at his finest.  His comments on the deplorable state of American politics - from Bill Clinton to George Bush - are as apposite as ever and, controversially, there are two magnificent essays on the Oklahoma bomber Timothy McVeigh - who entered into an extraordinary correspondence with Vidal when he was in gaol - to the recent terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.

THE LAST EMPIRE

Once again the incomparable Gore Vidal interprets and animates history -- this time in a panoramic tour of the 5th century B.C. -- and embellishes it with his own ironic humor, brilliant insights, and piercing observations. We meet a vast array of historical figures in a staggering novel of love, war, philosophy, and adventure . . . "There isn't a page of CREATION that doesn't inform and very few pages that do not delight."-- John Leonard, The New York Times

Création

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.

Julien

Originaltitel: September 11th and after.Originaltitel: The meaning of Timothy McVeigh.Originaltitel: Shredding the Bill of Rights.Originaltitel: The new theocrats.

La Fin de la liberté: Vers un nouveau totalitarisme?

Determined to reinvent himself and explore new territory in his work, Gore Vidal published a provocative satirical work destined to be on a collision course with social conventions in 1968. Written as a diary, Myra Breckinridge, someone determined not to be possessed by any man, recounts her day as she lives it out in the Hollywood of the '60s. Feminism, transsexuality, and a host of cinematic jokes abound.

Myra Breckinridge et Myron

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

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.

CREATION

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