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Hocus bogus

Gary, Romain. (Author). Bellos, David. (Added Author).

Summary: "By the early 1970s, Romain Gary had established himself as one of France's most popular and prolific novelists, journalists, and memoirists. Feeling that he had been typecast as "Romain Gary," however, he wrote his next novel under the pseudonym Emile Ajar. His second novel written as Ajar, Life Before Us, was a runaway success, won the Prix Goncourt, and became the best-selling French novel of the twentieth century." "The Prix Goncourt made people all the keener to identify the real "Emile Ajar," and Gary, stressed by the furor he had created, fled to Geneva. There, Pseudo, a hoax confession and one of the most alarmingly effective mystifications in all literature, was written at high speed. Writing under double cover, Gary simulated schizophrenia and paranoid delusions while pretending to be Paul Pawlovitch confessing to being Emile Ajar - the author of books Gary himself had written." "In Pseudo, brilliantly translated by David Belles as Hocus Bogus, the struggle to assert and deny authorship is part of a wider protest against suffering and universal hypocrisy. Playing with novelistic categories and authorial voice, this work is a powerful testimony to the power of language - to express, to amuse, to deceive, and ultimately to speak difficult personal truths."--Jacket

Record details

ISBN: 9780300181548
ISBN: 9780300149760
ISBN: 030018154X
ISBN: 030014976X
ISBN: 9780300162974
ISBN: 0300162979
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 197 pages)
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Computer data.
Publisher: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, �2010.

Content descriptions

General Note:	"Hocus Bogus first published in French as Pseudo by Mercure de France. � Mercure de France, 1976. This translation � David Bellos, 2010. Published by arrangement with the Estate of Romain Gary."--Title page verso CatMonthString:june.23 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-197).
Formatted Contents Note:	About this book / David Bellos -- Hocus bogus / Romain Gary writing as �Emile Ajar ; translated by David Bellos -- The life and death of �Emile Ajar / Romain Gary ; translated by Barbara Wright.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription.
Language Note:	In English.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by JSTOR.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.