The Emperor, C'est Moi
Hugo Horiot is in love with wheels and all that cranks or turns. He is obsessed with the otherworldly language of pipes-they run, he imagines, from his family home to the center of the earth. He causes endless trouble at home and hates school. He muses: I dream asleep, I dream awake-but he dreams so hard he shuts out the world with reveries that are not just curious but dangerous and painful too. School is a prison he must escape, his teachers oppressors, and his classmates a band of jolly torturers. This is the portrait of a boy who might happen to suffer from autism, but who is also a beautiful rebel inspired to blaze his own path through c…
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Weitere Autoren: Coverdale, Linda (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-60980-613-2
- EAN: 9781609806132
- Produktnummer: 16755127
- Verlag: Seven Stories Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 176 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'254 KB
Über den Autor
HUGO HORIOT is a young French actor, director, and writer. In 2005, he was admitted to the Theatre du Jour, a French theater academy, where he studied the art of acting with Pierre Debauche. The Emperor, C'est Moi, the narrative of his experiences with autism, won the Prix Paroles de patients, a French award that recognizes writers writing about disease and healing. The text was later adapted for the stage, with Horiot playing his own character. I am not cured of Autism, Horiot has said, I have learned to live with it. He resides in Paris. Translator LINDA COVERDALE holds a Ph.D. in French Studies from the Johns Hopkins University and has translated over seventy books. A Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, she has won the 2004 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the 2006 Scott Moncrieff Prize, and the French-American Foundation Translation Prize in both 1997 and 2008. She lives in Brooklyn.
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