The Death of Napoleon (New York Review Books Classics). Cet article n’est pas disponible.
Langue : anglais
Edité par NYRB Classics, 2015
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- Titre
- The Death of Napoleon (New York Review Books Classics)
- Auteur
- Leys, Simon
- Éditeur
- NYRB Classics
- Année de publication
- 2015
- État de l'article
- Very Good
- Reliure
- Couverture souple
- Langue
- anglais
- ISBN à 10 chiffres
- 1590178424
- ISBN à 13 chiffres
- 9781590178423
As he bore a vague resemblance to the Emperor, the sailors on board the Hermann-Augustus Stoeffer had nicknamed him Napoleon. And so, for convenience, that is what we shall call him.
Besides, he was Napoleon. . . .
Napoleon has escaped from St. Helena, leaving a double behind him. Now disguised as the cabin hand Eugène Lenormand and enduring the mockery of the crew (Napoleon, they laughingly nickname the pudgy, hopelessly clumsy little man), he is on his way back to Europe, ready to make contact with the huge secret organization that will return him to power. But then the ship on which he sails is rerouted from Bordeaux to Antwerp. When Napoleon disembarks, he is on his own.
He revisits the battlefield of Waterloo, now a tourist destination. He makes his way to Paris. Mistakes, misunderstandings, and mishaps conduct our puzzled hero deeper and deeper into the mystery of Napoleon.
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À propos de l’auteur
Patricia Clancy has received several translation prizes, including the British Independent Prize for Foreign Fiction for her co-translation of The Death of Napoleon and the Scott Moncrieff Prize for her 1999 translation of The Black Room at Longwood: Napoleon’s Exile on Saint Helena by Jean-Paul Kauffmann.
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