John Paul Jones or ambition.
Fata Morgana| N° d'inventaire | 23562 |
| Format | 14 x 22 |
| Détails | 120 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Saint-Clement-de-Rivière, 1989 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782851941664 |
After the success of Gold, Cendrars undertook a new novel that was to be its counterpart: the life of John Paul Jones, an extraordinary Scottish adventurer of the 18th century, an American commodore, decorated by Louis XVI, who ended up in Russia, Potemkin's rival with Catherine II. Of this novel, Cendrars wrote only the first part: his childhood in Scotland and his youth in the Antilles and America in the 1770s, those of the Slave Trade, piracy and the Revolution. These are one hundred pages overflowing with life, enthusiasm, and the frenetic writing of the great Cendrars of the 1920s.
After the success of Gold, Cendrars undertook a new novel that was to be its counterpart: the life of John Paul Jones, an extraordinary Scottish adventurer of the 18th century, an American commodore, decorated by Louis XVI, who ended up in Russia, Potemkin's rival with Catherine II. Of this novel, Cendrars wrote only the first part: his childhood in Scotland and his youth in the Antilles and America in the 1770s, those of the Slave Trade, piracy and the Revolution. These are one hundred pages overflowing with life, enthusiasm, and the frenetic writing of the great Cendrars of the 1920s.