
Hold Fast Your Crown
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An exasperated writer obsessed with American cinema embarks on an increasingly bizarre journey in this heady, engrossing novel.
A man writes an enormous screenplay on the life of Herman Melville. Not a single producer is interested in it. One day, someone gives him the phone number of the great American filmmaker Michael Cimino, legendary director of The Deer Hunterand Heaven's Gate. A meeting is arranged in New York, and Cimino reads the manuscript. What follows is a series of crazy adventures through Ellis Island, the Musée de la Chasse in Paris, a lake in Italy.
We run into Isabelle Huppert, Diana the hunting goddess, a Dalmatian named Sabbat, a diabolical neighbor, and two shady characters with conspicuous mustaches. There's also a pretty PhD student, an unpleasant concierge, and an aggressive maître d' who looks like Emmanuel Macron...
This improbable, insightful tale bridges the divide between cinema and literature in unexpected ways that are at once gratifying and profound.
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Teresa Lavender Fagan is a freelance translator. She has published more than a dozen book-length translations, including Jean Bottéro's The Oldest Cuisine in the World: Cooking in Mesopotamia and Catherine Cusset's Life of David Hockney.
Content
- Intro
- Other Titles
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Part One: Films
- 1: The White Deer
- 2: Michael Cimino
- 3: Pointel
- 4: Phone Call
- 5: The Polish Rider
- 6: Sabbat
- 7: Tot
- 8: Sacrifices
- 9: Guy the Cobra
- 10: The End
- 11: Napalm
- 12: Two Visitors
- Part Two: Problems
- 13: In Front of the Door
- 14: A Fracas
- 15: The Eye of The Deer
- 16: Plateau Prestige
- 17: The Great Cimino
- 18: Charles Reznikoff
- 19: Blood from the Beginning
- 20: The Statue of Liberty
- 21: Artemis
- 22: The Fire Exists
- 23: The Visconti Horse
- Part Three: Names
- 24: Dr. Bach's Elixir
- 25: The World is Full of Teeth
- 26: The Three Yuccas
- 27: The Absolute
- 28: A Lake Right in the Middle of Paris
- 29: The Drops
- 30: The Hunt
- 31: Place de la République
- 32: The Isenheim Altarpiece
- 33: The World or Nothing
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