by Romain Gary · Folio · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070363735
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«La promesse de l'aube» is the autobiographical novel by Romain Gary, published by Folio in paperback (390 pages, in French).
The narrator promises his mother, a Russian immigrant who raised him alone and without resources, to dedicate his life to her and to compensate her sacrifices with glory. With humour and lucidity, he reviews his childhood between Poland and France, his military and diplomatic career and his literary success, always under the influence of a demanding mother.
Volume 373 of the Folio collection from Gallimard, published in 1973. French edition, pocket format.
Readers interested in twentieth-century French literature and literary autobiographies.
Romain Gary, also known by the pen name Émile Ajar, was a Lithuanian-born French novelist, diplomat, film director, and military aviator. He is the only author to have won the Prix Goncourt twice. He is considered a major writer of French literature of the second half of the 20th century.
