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La Lanterne Verte
"On leur céda une souricière dans l'allée des Étrangleurs, l'ancien Paradiz, où Chaliapine avait chanté avant de partir en exil. L'endroit grouillait de rats et toutes ses issues étaient condamnées avant que la troupe des Comédiens Voyageurs de Tiflis n'y débarque pour six semaines de représentation. Leur régisseur, Boris Nikolaïevitch Touchkov, avait magouillé avec les dirigeants géorgiens du Parti. Son unique triomphe, il l'avait connu avec Le Roi Lear. Et voilà qu'à présent il amenait Lear à Moscou." C'est une production plutôt risquée... Jouer une pièce ayant pour sujet un vieux roi gâteux, veuf et père de Cordelia alors que Staline approche de la soixantaine, que sa femme est morte, qu'il a une fille jeune et qu'il est aussi secret que Lear, n'est-ce pas très dangereux ? D'autant plus qu'embusqué dans son bureau du Kremlin où est allumée en permanence une lanterne verte Staline contrôle tout, surveille les moindres faits et gestes de ses "sujets", et en particulier les artistes, tous colporteurs d'idées vite jugées subversives...
- GenresFiction
464 pages, Pocket Book
First published September 7, 2004
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About the author
Jerome Charyn
221 books229 followersJerome Charyn is an award-winning American author. With more than 50 published works, Charyn has earned a long-standing reputation as an inventive and prolific chronicler of real and imagined American life.
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon calls him "one of the most important writers in American literature." New York Newsday hailed Charyn as "a contemporary American Balzac," and the Los Angeles Times described him as "absolutely unique among American writers."
Since the 1964 release of Charyn's first novel, Once Upon a Droshky, he has published thirty novels, three memoirs, eight graphic novels, two books about film, short stories, plays, and works of non-fiction. Two of his memoirs were named New York Times Book of the Year.
Charyn has been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He received the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was named Commander of Arts and Letters by the French Minister of Culture. Charyn is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Film Studies at the American University of Paris.
In addition to writing and teaching, Charyn is a tournament table tennis player, once ranked in the top ten percent of players in France. Noted novelist Don DeLillo called Charyn's book on table tennis, Sizzling Chops & Devilish Spins, "The Sun Also Rises of ping-pong."
Charyn's most recent novel, Jerzy, was described by The New Yorker as a "fictional fantasia" about the life of Jerzy Kosinski, the controversial author of The Painted Bird. In 2010, Charyn wrote The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson, an imagined autobiography of the renowned poet, a book characterized by Joyce Carol Oates as a "fever-dream picaresque."
Charyn lives in New York City. He's currently working with artists Asaf and Tomer Hanuka on an animated television series based on his Isaac Sidel crime novels.
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon calls him "one of the most important writers in American literature." New York Newsday hailed Charyn as "a contemporary American Balzac," and the Los Angeles Times described him as "absolutely unique among American writers."
Since the 1964 release of Charyn's first novel, Once Upon a Droshky, he has published thirty novels, three memoirs, eight graphic novels, two books about film, short stories, plays, and works of non-fiction. Two of his memoirs were named New York Times Book of the Year.
Charyn has been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He received the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was named Commander of Arts and Letters by the French Minister of Culture. Charyn is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Film Studies at the American University of Paris.
In addition to writing and teaching, Charyn is a tournament table tennis player, once ranked in the top ten percent of players in France. Noted novelist Don DeLillo called Charyn's book on table tennis, Sizzling Chops & Devilish Spins, "The Sun Also Rises of ping-pong."
Charyn's most recent novel, Jerzy, was described by The New Yorker as a "fictional fantasia" about the life of Jerzy Kosinski, the controversial author of The Painted Bird. In 2010, Charyn wrote The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson, an imagined autobiography of the renowned poet, a book characterized by Joyce Carol Oates as a "fever-dream picaresque."
Charyn lives in New York City. He's currently working with artists Asaf and Tomer Hanuka on an animated television series based on his Isaac Sidel crime novels.
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September 5, 2014
No, not that Green Lantern. A really enjoyable story that puts layers on layers about how actors, politicians, writers, artists, and dictators have to make accommodations with each other. Ostensibly a story about a production of King Lear as Stalin enters his 60s, this novel shows how the Cheka, NKVD, actors, writers, black marketeers, Stalin, and others interact in response to provocations, fear, and naked ambition.
October 21, 2012
Charyn's Russian epic.
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