Author: | Devitt Khelen |
Language: | Russian |
Publisher: | OOO "IZD-VO AST" (2005) |
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The Last Samurai (2000) is the first novel by American writer Helen DeWitt. It was sold in more than a dozen countries, with 100,000 copies sold in English. It was reissued by New Directions in 2016.
The Last Samurai (2000) is the first novel by American writer Helen DeWitt. The Last Samurai is about the relationship between a young boy, Ludo, and his mother, Sibylla.
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Daughter of an American diplomat, Helen DeWitt grew up in Mexico, Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador. She started a degree at Smith College and dropped out twice, the first time to read Proust and Eliot while working as a chambermaid, the second time to take the Oxford entrance exam.
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Helen DeWitt’s The Last Samurai. Photo: Courtesy of the publisher. Ask a set of writers and critics to select books for a new canon, and it shouldn’t come as a shock that the one most of them name is a novel about the nature of genius
Helen DeWitt’s The Last Samurai. Ask a set of writers and critics to select books for a new canon, and it shouldn’t come as a shock that the one most of them name is a novel about the nature of genius. It is also, more precisely, a novel about universal human potential. Like many epics, Helen DeWitt’s The Last Samurai charts the education of its hero and proceeds by means of a quest narrative.
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They also repeatedly watch Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai, chosen by Sibylla to provide male role models. Perhaps the book is a little bloated, but DeWitt’s zeal cannot fail to enchant.
They also repeatedly watch Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai, chosen by Sibylla to provide male role models. The one question in her son’s education that Sybilla refuses to answer is the one he most wants to know: Who is my father? So at 11, Ludo takes matters into his own hands. This bizarre, bold, brilliant book, originally published in 2000, is original both in content and form.