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The New Confessions is the fourth novel by the Scottish writer William Boyd published in 1987. The theme and narrative structure of the novel is modelled on Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Les Confessions, the reading of which has a huge impact on the protagonist's life.
- William Boyd
- 1987
1 de oct. de 2000 · John James Todd is born in Scotland in 1899, and The New Confessions follows his life from childhood to a boarding school, to the Great War, to his work in silent film in Germany, to the Second World War, to America up to the 1970s. Todd's life's work is to adapt Rousseau's Confessions into film.
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14 de jul. de 2021 · The new confessions. by. Boyd, William, 1952-. Publication date. 1987. Publisher. London : Hamish Hamilton. Collection.
The New Confessions. William Boyd. Penguin Books, 1988 - Fiction - 528 pages. In this extraordinary novel, William Boyd presents the autobiography of John James Todd, whose uncanny and...
Plagued by bad luck and blind ambition, Todd becomes a celebrated London upstart, a Weimar luminary, and finally a disgruntled director of cowboy movies and the eleventh member of the Hollywood Ten. Ambitious and entertaining, Boyd has invented a most irresistible hero.
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Suffering imprisonment, shooting, marriage, fatherhood, divorce and McCarthyism, Todd is a hostage to good fortune, ill-judgement, bad luck, the vast sweep of history and the cruel, cruel hand of fate .. Originally published: London: Hamish Hamilton, 1987.
THE NEW CONFESSIONS (edición en inglés) WILLIAM BOYD. PENGUIN - 9780141046914. Escribe tu opinión. Literatura en inglés. Sinopsis de THE NEW CONFESSIONS. John James Todd, a Scotsman born in 1899 and one of the great self-appointed (and failed) geniuses of the twentieth century. This book deals with his life and work. Ficha técnica.
