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Tom Wolfe - translation to french

AMERICAN AUTHOR AND JOURNALIST (1930–2018)

Tom Wolfe Jr.; Thomas Wolfe Jr.; Thomas K. Wolfe Jr.; Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr.; The Purple Decades; Thomas K. Wolfe; Thomas Kennerly Wolfe; Wolfe, Tom

Tom Wolfe

Tom Wolfe, famous award-winning American author

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A tom-tom is a tall narrow drum that is usually played with the hands.

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Tom Wolfe

Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. (March 2, 1930 – May 14, 2018) was an American author and journalist widely known for his association with New Journalism, a style of news writing and journalism developed in the 1960s and 1970s that incorporated literary techniques.

Wolfe began his career as a regional newspaper reporter in the 1950s, achieving national prominence in the 1960s following the publication of such best-selling books as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (a highly experimental account of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters) and two collections of articles and essays, Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers and The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby. In 1979, he published the influential book The Right Stuff about the Mercury Seven astronauts, which was made into a 1983 film of the same name directed by Philip Kaufman.

His first novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities, published in 1987, was met with critical acclaim and also became a commercial success. Its adaptation as a motion picture of the same name, directed by Brian De Palma, was a critical and commercial failure.

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1. Sachant que le cinéaste s‘appręte ŕ diriger Matt Damon et Sean Penn dans une biographie d‘Harvey Milk, politicien homosexuel assassiné dans les années 70, puis qu‘il adaptera vraisemblablement le roman psychédélique de Tom Wolfe The Electric Kool–Aid Acid Test sur le LSD, Paranoid Park apparaît comme la fin d‘une période dans sa filmographie.

2. Cet acteur, qui a tourné dans l‘adaptation du B$';cher des vanités de Tom Wolfe, était alors en tournée, et déprimé. Dans la rue, il aperçoit en vitrine la photo encadrée d‘une femme sans visage, enceinte, qui a des ailes ŕ la place des bras. «Je dois l‘avoir!» s‘exclame le comédien, subjugué par la découverte, qui sera sienne d‘autant plus facilement qu‘il s‘agissait d‘une reproduction.

3. Dans les années 50, Christian Dior se fit remarquer par sa sobriété vestimentaire, la simplicité de ses costumes et l‘importance qu‘il donnait ŕ sa cravate (il en lancera une collection, reprise cette année par Kris Van Assche, designer pour Dior Homme). Son attitude ressort de celle d‘un dandy discret, transcendé. Le dandysme comme courant ne disparaît pas tout ŕ fait dans les années 60, devenant une expression multiple comme les figures d‘un kaléidoscope: de l‘excentricité de l‘écrivain américain Tom Wolfe ŕ l‘élitisme de Truman Capote, en passant par l‘ironie dérisoire d‘un Andy Warhol ou par celle, extravagante, de l‘androgyne David Bowie, jusqu‘ŕ la simplissime et silencieuse élégance d‘Yves Saint Laurent.