Alexander Diego Gary is the son of two stars, literary and Hollywood. His father, writer Romain Gary, and mother, actress Jean Seberg, committed suicide – first she, then he – leaving his son alone with eternal despair and longing for the departed. Documentary novel by Gary Jr. is a spiritual autobiography and a seance of literary spiritualism.
Alexander Diego Gary is the son of two stars, literary and Hollywood. His father, writer Romain Gary, and mother, actress Jean Seberg, committed suicide – first she, then he – leaving his son alone with eternal despair and longing for the departed. Documentary novel by Gary Jr. is a spiritual autobiography and a seance of literary spiritualism. His hero, The One from San Sebastian, speaks to the spirits of his father, mother, nanny, and lovers, abandoned by him and abandoned by him. All this with one goal: to survive. To survive by “vomiting up” (his word) a terrible parental inheritance, overcoming the temptation to run after them. The hero is saved from himself by a dancer, educated and subtle, with the Russian name Lyudmila, whom fate brings to the Barcelona red light district. Gary brings the girl out of his dungeons, she returns him the desire to live. Confused, but instructive confession that you can always get out, but always only thanks to love.
Foreigner, 224 p.