by Jean D'Ormesson · J.-C. Lattès · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782709604130
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«Le vent du soir» is the novel by Jean D'Ormesson, published by J.-C. Lattès in paperback (255 pages, in French).
Story within History: it begins in the mid-nineteenth century and moves from Brazil to Venice, with stops in Russia, India, South Africa, Scotland and Vienna. A great Russian lord, a woman from Bahia, a young Polish Jew, a South American dictator, a Frenchwoman in St Petersburg and Verdi live ardent passions, adventures and strokes of fate.
First instalment of the trilogy «Trilogie du Vent du soir», completed by «Tous les hommes en sont fous» and «Le Bonheur à San Miniato».
For readers of historical and adventure fiction, with a choral narrative set across several continents.
Jean Bruno Wladimir François-de-Paule Lefèvre d'Ormesson was a French writer and novelist. He authored forty books, was the director of Le Figaro from 1974 to 1977, as well as the dean of the Académie Française, to which he was elected in 1973, until his death, in addition to his service as president of the International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences within UNESCO (1992–1997). A major public figure in France, known for his art de la conversation, Jean d'Ormesson was saluted as "the best of the French spirit" by President Emmanuel Macron upon his death.
