Donne Charles

Aznavour was one of France's most popular and enduring singers. He sold 180 million records during his lifetime and was dubbed France's Frank Sinatra, while music critic Stephen Holden described Aznavour as a "French pop deity". He was also arguably the most famous Armenian of his time. In 1998, Aznavour was named Entertainer of the Century by CNN and users of Time Online from around the globe. He was recognized as the century's outstanding performer, with nearly 18% of the total vote, edging out Elvis Presley and Bob Dylan. Jean Cocteau once said: "Before Aznavour despair was unpopular".

Fin dall'inizio, e per tutte le sue trecento pagine, il romanzo è la confessione esplicita, quasi ostentata, di una passione stregante: le donne per Bukowski sono un'attrazione costante, un bisogno che non conosce pause e che non si arresta neppure di fronte alle situazioni più disagevoli, o riprovevoli, o disgustose. In questo, che è il suo romanzo più esplicitamente erotico, Bukowski racconta con strepitosa immediatezza le sue - vere o immaginarie - avventure d'amore. Storie tumultuose, incontri sguaiati e grotteschi, memorabili o miserabili prodezze, dialoghi enormemente e quasi commoventemente sboccati, sullo sfondo di un'esistenza randagia, segnata da maratone alcoliche, gravata dalla continua e assillante ricerca di denaro, vissuta sempre e rigorosamente on the road.

Véritable thriller sur fond de pyramides, Fox fait appel à l'aventure, au fantastique et au suspense. Parcourant un monde de mystères et de sortilèges, de charme et de frissons, Fox est l'aventurier avec un grand A. Explorateur des arcanes d'un savoir perdu dans la mémoire des siècles, de l'Égypte oubliée aux landes d'Écosse en passant par l'Amérique, il donne l'occasion au tandem Jean Dufaux/Jean-François Charles de se livrer à un véritable safari du fantastique.

Charles Aznavour is perhaps the best-known French music hall entertainer in the world – renowned the world over for the bittersweet love songs he has written and sung, which seem to embody the essence of French popular song, and also for his appearances on screen in such wildly divergent fare as Shoot the Piano Player, Candy, and The Tin Drum. His status as the quintessential French popular culture icon is something of an irony for a man who identifies himself most closely with his Armenian heritage. Born Shahnour Varenagh Aznavourian, his French roots derive from the fact that his family fled the threat of massacre by the Turks – his father was a singer and sometime-restauranteur, while his mother was an actress and part-time seamstress.

Au XVIIIème siècle, la Nouvelle France sert de terre d'exil à tous les proscrits fuyant l'Europe. Benjamin Graindal doit échapper à la police royale et, pour sauver sa vie, s'enfonce dans cette terre immense et inconnue. A l'instar des maîtres du roman d'aventures, Jean-François Charles dresse le portrait chaleureux de personnages hors du commun, campe de somptueux décors, et reconstitue avec un soin méticuleux du détail les plus célèbres batailles.