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 worshipping 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

Deux adolescents, Jim Willard et Bob Ford, découvrent l'amour physique avant de se séparer à la fin de l'été. Pendant les années qui suivent, au cours d'un périple américain qui le mènera à vivre sur un cargo au large de l'Alaska, chez une star d'Hollywood dans les années 30, puis à New York parmi les écrivains du Village, Jim Willard tentera de retrouver le moment de grâce qui a imprimé pour toujours sa marque sur son existence.

Un garçon près de la rivière

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

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

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.

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

" myra breckirzridge et myron est une fantaisie hollywoodienne oú s'entrecroisent les thèmes du dr.
 Jekyll et des liaisons dangereuses.  le personnage de myra est transsexuel, un être mythique, une sorte de justicière hermaphrodite qui part en guerre contre les tabous de la vie américaine.  myra est contre tout ce qui rend la vie ennuyeuse, répétitive.  elle est pour la réduction des naissances mais elle aime la variété, elle prône une sexualité polymorphe.  (. ) myra traque cet îlot de satisfaction et de suffisance qu'est le mâle américain.
 Myra est l'amante de l'avenir qui maudit le présent, cette amérique engorgé, agioteuse, hâbleuse, comme un champ de foire et de carnage.  " gérard joulié.

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