The many lives and guises of a bestselling author and international celebrity.
David Bellos is Professor of French and Comparative Literature and Director of the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication at Princeton University. He is well known for his many translations and for his biographies Georges Perec- A Life in Words and Jacques Tati. David Bellos was awarded the first Man Booker International Translator's Prize in 2005 for his translations of Ismail Kadare's novels.
"Heroically well-researched and hugely entertaining"
*The Spectator*
"Alert, riveting, [and] wonderfully fluent biography"
*Independent*
"This book's dash and drive match its subject in a captivating tour
of a life - and an epoch."
*Independent*
"David Bellos stylishly presents the scandal-strewn career of a
rebel French writer. His dash and drive show that there need be
nothing stuffy about formal biography."
*Independent*
"Compelling...a masterpiece of detective investigation."
*Literary Review*
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