Shortly before his fifth birthday, David Vogel announced he wanted violin lessons. When his father insisted violins were too expensive, David went knocking on doors and came home with the loan of a half-size violin. Growing up, it was assumed he would become an artist of some sort while his older brother would be a scientist. David was not the better student of the two. When he graduated from high school, the principal called his parents in for a conference and informed them that it would be a waste of David's time and their money to send him to college. But in college, he and his brother switched places. His brother became an actor while David earned a PhD in biophysics (but with a subspecialty in eccentricity).
Most of Dr Vogel's writing has been educational, and almost all of it (including an introductory physics textbook) has been humorous. (His research papers on neural network models of higher cognitive processes are not at all amusing, but at least he almost failed his thesis defense when the conservative academic from a country with a certain national stereotype took issue with his amusing style - not appropriate in scientific writing).
Facing retirement, Dr Vogel has taken the opportunity to begin writing fiction. (Well, the physics problems about his Chrysler powered Smart Car were already fiction.) Day of the Dragonfly is the first novel he has let out of his hands, and it is the first that is not humorous. "It was an unexpected book that came chasing after me while I was sitting with my wife on a long, hot, tropical day in Brazil. It didn't have a single joke in it, but it insisted on being written. It seemed to write itself. Unfortunately, it wouldn't stop writing itself, and when it went past three hundred thousand words, it had to be hacked back like an acre of kudzu."
David Vogel presently resides in Hull, Georgia. He's easy to find. Hull is just one vowel from Hell. The serous tone and formal style of the new book have not stopped him from doing stand-up comedy.
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Traduit de l'hébreu par Michel Eckhard Elial
" Et parfois, vous rencontrez quelqu'un pour la première fois et vous sentez instinctivement qu'il est la source du malheur indispensable à votre existence... Et vous êtes lié à cette
personne comme son ombre. "
La passion qui unit Rudolf Gurdweil, un écrivain juif sans le sou, et Thea von Takow, une baronne autrichienne désargentée, se transforme après leurs noces en un piège. Thea le trompe, le tourmente, le raille en permanence. Peu importe. Car Gurdweil ne cherche pas à s'évader de cette vie pourtant devenue impossible.
Dans Vienne où plane l'ombre de la catastrophe à venir, le jeune homme traîne son désarroi et son amertume de café en café. La Vie conjugale relève d'un projet littéraire surprenant : celui d'écrire en hébreu un roman européen comme s'il était traduit de l'allemand. Il est l'unique roman publié du vivant de son auteur.
Título : La vie conjugale
EAN : 9782823608007
Editorial : L'Olivier
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