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Richard Lourie

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13+ oeuvres 447 utilisateurs 11 critiques

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Richard Lourie, an American writer, is a leading translator of contemporary Russian and Polish authors, a journalist, and a producer of film and television documentaries. His books of fiction and nonfiction include The Autobiography of Joseph Stalin (1999), Hunting the Devil (1993), Russia Speaks afficher plus (1989), and First Loyalty (1983) afficher moins

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The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin (1969) — Traducteur, quelques éditions515 exemplaires
Le roi Mathias 1er (1923) — Traducteur, quelques éditions356 exemplaires
La petite apocalypse : roman (1979) — Traducteur, quelques éditions225 exemplaires
Mon siècle, confession d'un intellectuel européen (1977) — Traducteur, quelques éditions190 exemplaires
The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto, 1941-1944 (1965) — Traducteur, quelques éditions172 exemplaires
The Polish Complex (1977) — Traducteur, quelques éditions141 exemplaires
Pretender to the Throne: The Further Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin (1980) — Traducteur, quelques éditions91 exemplaires
Goodnight! (1984) — Traducteur, quelques éditions65 exemplaires
The Anti-Soviet Soviet Union (1985) — Traducteur, quelques éditions51 exemplaires
Soldier and Tsar in the Forest: A Russian Tale (1972) — Traducteur — 27 exemplaires

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A deceptively simple little novel about Amsterdam in the 1940s with a narrator who may - or may not- have informed on the Franks.

This novel really got under my skin.
 
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laurenbufferd | 4 autres critiques | Nov 14, 2016 |
Un relato implacable sobre la paranoica personalidad de Josef Stalin, responsable de algunos de los crímenes mas horrendos del siglo XX, que combina el suspense de un thriller y la exactitud de la investigación histórica.
 
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HavanaIRC | 4 autres critiques | Aug 3, 2016 |
I read this at some point during high school, and re-read it during college. Absolutely brilliant first and last sentences, which I still remember offhand (it begins, "Leon Trotsky is trying to kill me" - I won't give away how it ends here). Rather brilliant in between, as well - incredibly imaginative.
 
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JennyArch | 4 autres critiques | Apr 3, 2013 |
This is a fascinating detective story that happens to be true. It would be hard to write a dull book about Andrei Chikatilo, but the way the author drew his characters really gripped me -- as did his horrific examples of the corruption and incompetence within the Soviet criminal justice system, which among other things lead an innocent man to be convicted of one of Chikatilo's murders and executed.

A word of warning: the book is as much about Inspector Kostoev (who was in charge of the task force to find Chikatilo and who eventually wrung a confession out of him) as it is about Chikatilo and his crimes. It goes into great detail about Kostoev's background, childhood, etc. I found it all very interesting but others may just want to read about the murders. Most of the Kostoev biography can be skipped if you really don't want to read it.… (plus d'informations)
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meggyweg | Mar 8, 2012 |

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