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Includes the name: Serge Rezvani

Works by Rezvani

Le Testament amoureux (1981) 8 copies
Light-years (1971) 6 copies
L'éclipse (2003) 4 copies
Les Années Lula (1987) 4 copies
Théâtre complet (1994) 3 copies
L'Amour en face (2002) 3 copies
Les américanoïaques (1995) 3 copies
la glycine (1991) 3 copies
LE TOURBILLON DE MA VIE (2015) 2 copies
Ultime amour (2012) 2 copies
J'avais un ami (1987) 2 copies
la nuit transfigurée (1993) 2 copies
Un fait divers esthetique (1999) 2 copies
La folie Tintoretto (1994) 2 copies
Mille aujourd'hui. (1972) 2 copies
La voie de l'Amérique. (1975) 2 copies
Au bonheur des sphères (2007) 2 copies
Isola Piccola (1994) 1 copy
"le canard du doute" (1998) 1 copy
Fokouli (1974) 1 copy
Amour-Humour (2022) 1 copy
Coma 1 copy
Le Corps d'Hélène (2015) 1 copy
Venise qui bouge (2004) 1 copy
L'Enigme 1 copy
Mille aujourd'hui (1976) 1 copy
Le Dresseur (2009) 1 copy
Le Vol du feu (2000) 1 copy
Le roman d'une maison (2001) 1 copy
Feu 1 copy
Vers les confins (2014) 1 copy

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Legal name
Rezvani, Serge
Other names
Bassiak, Cyrus
Birthdate
1928
Nationality
France
Birthplace
Tehran

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A Navy Investigator, a Poet Criminologist and a Scholar whose expertise is the history and works of the Knight family. The family yacht was found deserted in the middle of the sea, no souls on board, only their manuscripts shedding light on the personalities of their respective authors; presumed dead, drawned under mysterious circumstances. The three men, who remain anonymous throughout the text, initiate a series of dialogues between them, with the Scholar having the central stage as he gradually reads and deciphers the huge pile of manuscripts. The Poet Criminologist gets carried away and talks about literature, mostly classics, blinded by the brilliance and wide knowledge of the Scholar while the Navy Investigator tries in vain to restrain the other two men and stay on track with the investigation. Who killed the others and then committed suicide by lifting the ladder, condemning everyone including himself to a slow and torturous death in the cold waters around the luxury boat? And why?

Those who like fast mystery novels with complicated interwinned storylines and police investigating amongst suspects, members of the underground, should stay away from the book. The actual crime is used only as an excuse: references to (amongst others) Dostoyevsky, Poe, Dickinson, Thomas Mann, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, Da Vinci, the family situations of both the Criminologist and the Investigator whose lives get a new meaning by the Scholar's acquaintance and above all, the histories and works of the Knight family members, extraordinary characters all of them. Understanding them does not merely lead to the solution of the mystery, but rather to the better understanding of the human nature.
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Works
62
Members
138
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Rating
2.9
Reviews
3
ISBNs
60
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