Americain, americain, Paperback Book, By: Hubert Prolongeau

A genius cineast, Elia Kazan also denounced some of her communist friends to Senator McCarthy's anti-American activities commission. In this indefensible act, he then has the subject of his greatest films. Can abjection nourish talent Fabulous walk through the past and meticulous reconstruction of Hollywood of the time, this novel, which parallels the fate of Kazan and that of a fictional character, a "good" man but mediocre filmmaker? , is a poignant questioning of the injustice of genius.