Anglais Mistler's exit

À propos

Thomas Mistler has always thought himself "a happy man, as the world goes." A scion of old money, he made his own fortune in advertising and is now poised to sell the company he founded for a fabulous price. But when a medical examination reveals the presence in his liver of a fatal intruder, "preposterously, unmistakably, he begins to rejoice," with a feeling of having been set free. But free from what?He will seek the answer surreptitiously, without revealing his illness to his family, during a last reprieve, a moment of grace in "the one place on earth where nothing irritates him." But amidst the surreal beauties of Venice, he finds bitterness and chaos as he allows himself to drift for the first time. His halfhearted efforts to seize the day and its present pleasuresfirst with a striving young photographer and later with a love of his youth who never loved himcannot compete with his need to commune with the living and the dead that crowd his life: his father and uncle, pillars of the Establishment, sources of the "genetic puritanism" he has never tried to resist; his son, Sam, whose love he has only barely salvaged; his wife, once perfectly "beautiful and suitable," now humiliated by him and halfscorned. And the one woman who embodies everything he might have wished for, a woman he "never had and never lost."Deeply poignant yet mordantly funny, Mistler's Exit brilliantly discloses the pleasures and miseries of having it all. A masterly revelation f the complexities of the heart.From the Hardcover edition.


Rayons : Littérature > Littérature


  • Auteur(s)

    Louis Begley

  • Éditeur

    Ivy

  • Distributeur

    Olf

  • Date de parution

    01/10/1999

  • EAN

    9780804119153

  • Disponibilité

    Épuisé

  • Épaisseur

    0.5 cm

  • Poids

    100 g

  • Support principal

    Grand format

Infos supplémentaires : Broché  

Louis Begley

Juif polonais né en 1933, Louis Begley et ses
parents ont réussi à survire à la guerre et ont émigré aux
États-Unis en 1947 après un bref séjour à Paris. Installé à
New York, il est devenu avocat après des études à
Harvard. Auteur reconnu dans le monde entier, il a publié
onze romans dont neuf ont été traduits en français. Une
éducation polonaise (Grasset) a reçu le Prix Médicis
étranger en 1992.

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