Raphaël Jerusalmy: 5 books

Naor, a young filmmaker, is driving with his mother. He tells her about being in Tel Aviv after a recent evacuation. Everyone else has fled, except for Naor and Yaël, his artist girlfriend, and Saba, his grandfather, who is a writer. The occasional missile explodes nearby. But Saba refuses...

The Da Vinci Code meets Stephen Greenblatt's The Swerve in this erudite adventure story set at the dawn of the printed book about the outlaw poet François Villon and the power of words to change the world. François Villon, the world's first poet of modernity, was born in Paris in 1431. He...

In una Tel Aviv assediata dalla guerra, l’esercito dirama alla popolazione l’ordine di abbandonare la città. Ma, all’ultimo minuto, l’anziano Saba decide di scendere dall’autobus su cui era stato fatto salire per l’evacuazione, trascinando con sé il giovane nipote Naor e la fidanzata...

Raphaël Jerusalmy’s debut novel takes the form of the journal of Otto J. Steiner, a former music critic of Jewish descent suffering from tuberculosis in a Salzburg sanatorium in 1939. Drained by his illness and isolated in the gloomy sanatorium, Steiner finds solace only in music. He is horrified...

Ambientato alla fine del Medioevo, all’epoca dell’invenzione della stampa, il romanzo racconta di una misteriosa cospirazione nata per contrastare l’oscurantismo della Chiesa e difendere la cultura e la libertà di pensiero dalla censura dell’Inquisizione. La singolare alleanza coinvolge nientemeno...