Dark diversions : a traveller's tale

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Dark diversions : a traveller's tale

John Ralston Saul

(Penguin books)(Penguin fiction)

Penguin, 2013, c2012

  • : pbk

タイトル別名

De si bons Américains

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注記

This is a vastly reworked and expanded English version of De si bons Américains published in France by Édition Payot & Rivages, 1996

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内容説明

Intrigue, prestige, debauchery: Dark Diversions by acclaimed author John Ralston Saul is a black comedy of international proportions. From aristocrats and the privileged circles of New York and Paris to military dictators and the political infighting, double-dealing and corruption or their regimes in Morocco and Haiti, welcome to the world where money and power reside. Through a series of encounters with its inhabitants, at once beguiling and grotesque, our investigative narrator uncovers bizarrre and disturbing stories of secret lovers, exiled princesses, religious heresies and murder. But as he becomes further enmeshed in this savage realm, his ambiguous status becomes increasingly unsettling: is he the impartial observer of priviliged foibles and fundamental inequity he appears to be? Or is he, perhaps, an embodiment of the dark diversions he chronicles? Laced with scathing wit, Dark Diversions is a novel that inveigles its reader on a picaresque journey of depravity. 'A delightful novel, invigoratingly wicked' Le Monde 'Saul has the eye, the aloofness, the killer turn of phrase of a Truman Capote' Le Figaro John Ralston Saul is Canada's leading public intellectual. Declared a 'prophet' by Time magazine, Saul has received many awards and prizes, including Chile's Pablo Neruda Medal. He is president of PEN International, and his thirteen works have been translated into twenty-two languages in thirty countries. Dark Diversions is his sixth novel.

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詳細情報
  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BB12331695
  • ISBN
    • 9780241964996
  • 出版国コード
    uk
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 原本言語コード
    fre
  • 出版地
    London
  • ページ数/冊数
    321 p.
  • 大きさ
    20 cm
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