—The GuardianWhat emerges, overwhelmingly, is the sense that, in Gary’s hands, fiction itself is a form of resistance.
Romain Gary (1914–1980) was born Roman Kacew in Vilnius to a family of Lithuanian Jews. He changed his name when he fled occupied France to fight the Nazis as an RAF pilot. Using several different pen names throughout his life, Gary was the only writer to have received the Prix Goncourt twice. Also a diplomat and a filmmaker, Gary was married to the American actress Jean Seberg. He died in Paris in 1980 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Translated by Miranda Richmond Mouillot
Translated by Ralph Manheim
—The GuardianWhat emerges, overwhelmingly, is the sense that, in Gary’s hands, fiction itself is a form of resistance.
—The Guardian[A] hugely enjoyable read.
—BBCEpic and empathetic.
—Charles de GaulleWhat talent, most certainly, how many ideas and passions too. You seize us and shake us. Ah!
