by Jeanne Champion · Fayard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782213623009
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«Le Terrible» is the historical novel by Jeanne Champion, published by Fayard in paperback (328 pages, in French).
The novel focuses on Ivan IV of Russia, nicknamed «the Terrible», and his reign marked by paranoia, betrayal and cruelty. Jeanne Champion interweaves the voices of the tsar himself, spies, boyars, close associates and biographers, and draws on Eisenstein's film to explore the psychology of a leader tormented since childhood.
The novel is set in sixteenth-century Russia and was originally published in 2005.
For readers of historical fiction interested in the figure of Ivan the Terrible and the dynamics of power and paranoia in the Russian court.
Jeannine Gabrielle Marie Ange Champion, better known as Jeanne Champion was a French painter and historical novelist.
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