Fan fiction. Among the relics of a famous writer, his desk often stands out as the centerpiece. If Nick Hornby were one day honored with a museum, the visitor would distinguish on the wall the portraits of his two tutelary fathers, whom nothing seems to bring together except the exercise of admiration in which he indulges here: Dickens and Prince. “Formerly, Hornby remembers, a thing […] was circulating, a meme before its time […] which highlighted the uncanny similarities between Abraham Lincoln and John Fitzgerald Kennedy”both elected to Congress in the 46th year of their century, presidents in 60, assassinated by a bullet to the head on a Friday. Nothing like that about Dickens and Prince, except that they died before the age of 60, that they had relentlessly chased women, grown up in a penniless family and – the source of Hornby’s fascination – left in their glorious wake a monumental body of work, the fruit of an extraordinary productivity. Dickens was thus able to lead the intrigues ofOliver Twist And Nicholas Nicklebywhile the posthumous reissue of the album Sign o’ the Times included no less than sixty-three unreleased Prince songs! When one “part of the fabric of British life” Thanks to great popular novels, the other had succeeded in a song “appropriate the copyright of an entire color”a purple rain under which lovers from all over the world still dance. Unrolling the thread of these exceptional destinies, sharing little-known anecdotes and an enthusiastic and inspired approach to their work, Nick Hornby invites his readers to pay tribute to those who, like Dickens and Prince for him, belong to their family of heart.
Nick Hornby
Dickens & Prince. A very special genius
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Translated from English by Christine Barbaste
Print run: 5,000 copies.
Price: €19.90; 192 p.
ISBN: 9782234096295
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