by Donna Tartt · Pocket · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782266188739
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«Le Maître des illusions» is the mystery novel by Donna Tartt, published by Pocket in paperback (720 pages, in French).
Richard, a young man with no means, enters the elite University of Hampden (Vermont) and is admitted to Professor Julian's small group of classical studies. He soon discovers that, beneath the facade of wisdom and secrecy, a sinister truth lies hidden that drags the group into a spiral of secrets, betrayal, and violence.
The novel was originally published as The Secret History in 1992; this French edition, translated by Pierre Alien, appeared in 2012. It won the Mekka-prijs and the Prix des libraires du Québec in 1994.
For readers of mystery novels and stories with a dark academic atmosphere, a trend known as «dark academia».
Donna Louise Tartt is an American novelist. She wrote the novels The Secret History (1992), The Little Friend (2002), and The Goldfinch (2013), which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was adapted into a 2019 film of the same name. She was included in Time magazine's 2014 "100 Most Influential People" list.
