Vladimir M. - Couverture souple

Littell, Robert

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 2917559675 ISBN 13 : 9782917559673

Editeur : BAKER STREET, 2020

Synopsis

304pages. 20x14x3cm. Broché.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

'A vivid portrait of the life and times of Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky... rich in dark imagery and razor-sharp dialogue' Kirkus

'A complex but rewarding novel' Publishers Weekly

'Ambitious and tumultuous... Robert Littell signs a homage [to the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky] that is vibrant and sensual, where creative excesses existed alongside human genius' Lundi Library (France)

'Through the eyes of the four muses who loved and hated this tornado of love, sex, poetry and revolution, Littell... brushes an iconoclastic portrait of the poet who was crushed by Stalinism' Le Point (France)

'An eminence grise of the world of espionage, Robert Littell hides a romanesque soul. It surfaces in The Mayakovsky Tapes [Vladimir M.], a fictionalized biography of the Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. With a kaleidoscope of emotions the flamboyant Lilya, the anti-Bolshevik Elly, the White Russian Tatiana, and the brazen diva Nora explore seventh heaven with their Don Quixote-like young idol' 24 Hours (Switzerland)

'Before shooting himself in the heart April 14, 1930, Vladimir Mayakovsky loved Lilia, Tatiana, Elly, Nora. In his latest book, Robert Littell reunites them twenty-three years after the poet's death. They confront their memories, detail their most intimate secrets with the young Bolshevik who committed suicide at age 36, tormented, torn between morality and commitment. Littell's obsessions resurface in the 282 pages of a book where emotion vies with intelligence and powerful writing' Le Parisien

'Robert Littell gives us a delightful rereading of Mayakovsky's biography - inventing, as a subtext, a war of the poet's muses. He manages above all to explain the inexplicable: how someone endowed with such poetic power could end up killing himself' --Magazine Litteraire (France)

'The form of the book is particularly successful: a transcript of a conversation between four of the very sexual poet's former muses, exchanges that paint a picture of Mayakovsky's life, and through him of a Russia in full ebullition. The conversations sparkle with malice, jealousy, trenchant phrases, earthiness, bad faith, passion and love. A great way to explore Futurism, Vladimir Mayakovsky, his muses, the Russian Revolution, Pasternak also' --Garoupe (France)

'Robert Littell is not superficial. With few words and little fuss, Littell uses the weight of history to demonstrate the hopes that the Bolshevik Revolution was able to generate and all the horrors that it caused. Despite its historical purpose, the novel reads like a thriller and each page is turned with the impatience that proves the reader wants more' --Pieuvre Litterature (France)

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Lilia, Tatiana, Elly, Nora : quatre femmes réunies en 1953 à Moscou autour d'un étudiant américain, R. Litzky. Elles ont aimé le même homme, l'immense poète russe Vladimir Maïakovski. Lilia Brik, volage et envoûtante, son grand amour. Tatiana Iakovlevna, l'aristocrate, la seule qui s'est refusée à lui. Elly Jones, l'âme s ur. Nora Polonskaïa, la belle comédienne. Elles pensent toutes connaître ses secrets. Et pourtant, vingt-cinq ans après sa mort, alors que ces quatre muses confrontent leurs souvenirs du jeune artiste tourmenté, les révélations s'enchaînent. Elles dévoilent des détails de plus en plus intimes, charnels. Le suicide du poète, magistralement mis en scène, ne fait qu'épaissir le mystère autour de cette figure emblématique de la Révolution.

Dans la lignée de son bestseller L'Hirondelle avant l'orage, Robert Littell brosse ici le portrait subversif et passionné d'un autre grand poète russe. Amours libres, avant-garde et idéal politique : un cocktail détonant qui mêle habilement réalité et fiction. Avec audace et non sans une pointe de provocation, Robert Littell joue plus que jamais avec l'Histoire.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: BAKER STREET
• Date d'édition: 2020
• ISBN 10: 2917559675
• ISBN 13: 9782917559673
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 282