Dark diversion

• Date de parution : 16/07/2013
• Editeur : Penguin Group Us
• EAN : 9780143186618
• Série : (-)
• Support : Livre numérique

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• Genre : (-)
• Thème : Littérature Anglo-Saxonne
• Prix littéraire(s) : (-)

In Dark Diversions, acclaimed author John Ralston Saul stages a black comedy of international proportions that takes the reader from New York to Paris to Morocco to Haiti in the 1980s and 1990s. When hes not encountering dictators in Third World hot spots, Sauls narrator moves in privileged... Voir plus

In Dark Diversions, acclaimed author John Ralston Saul stages a black comedy of international proportions that takes the reader from New York to Paris to Morocco to Haiti in the 1980s and 1990s. When hes not encountering dictators in Third World hot spots, Sauls narrator moves in privileged circles on both sides of the Atlantic, insinuating himself into the lives of wellto-do aristocrats. Through his exploits we experience a fascinating world of secret lovers, exiled princesses, death by veganism, and religious heresies. But as he becomes further enmeshed in these worlds, the outsider status of the narrator grows more ambiguous: Is he a documentarian of privileged foibles and fundamental inequity, or an embodiment of the very dark diversions he chronicles?