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Original Title:	The New Confessions
ISBN:	0375705031 (ISBN13: 9780375705038)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Oonagh, John James Todd, Karl-Heinz Kornfeld, Donald Verulam, Hamish Malahide, Doon Bogan
Setting:	Berlin(Germany) Edinburgh, Scotland Hollywood, California(United States) …more England …less

The New Confessions

William Boyd

Paperback | Pages: 480 pages

Rating: 4.1 | 2275 Users | 142 Reviews

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Title	:	The New Confessions
Author	:	William Boyd
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 480 pages
Published	:	October 10th 2000 by Vintage (first published September 28th 1987)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. Scotland

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In this extraordinary novel, William Boyd presents the autobiography of John James Todd, whose uncanny and exhilarating life as one of the most unappreciated geniuses of the twentieth century is equal parts Laurence Stern, Charles Dickens, Robertson Davies, and Saul Bellow, and a hundred percent William Boyd.  

From his birth in 1899, Todd was doomed. Emerging from his angst-filled childhood, he rushes into the throes of the twentieth century on the Western Front during the Great War, and quickly changes his role on the battlefield from cannon fodder to cameraman. When he becomes a prisoner of war, he discovers Rousseau's Confessions, and dedicates his life to bringing the memoir to the silver screen. Plagued by bad luck and blind ambition, Todd becomes a celebrated London upstart, a Weimar luminary, and finally a disgruntled director of cowboy movies and the eleventh member of the Hollywood Ten. Ambitious and entertaining, Boyd has invented a most irresistible hero.

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I've read it twice. It was just as compelling the second time.

William Boyd is not the kind of writer who wows you or hits you over the head with his writing, but ever so subtly he draws you into the story and before you know it you are half way through and wanting more. John James Todd, the fictional autobiographer, begins the narration with his birth in 1899. Each chapter closes in 1972 with words from the present day protagonist as he assesses himself at age 73 looking back on his life which took him to both World Wars and to America. A seminal moment

A fascinating story of one man's uncertain journey through life.

Low 5. Boyd has produced a magisterial account of one mans obsession to produce an artistic piece of cinematic homage in dedication to his inspiration, Rousseaus Confessions. The protagonist, as in so many of Boyds novels, is a deeply flawed character, whose critical eye on those surrounding him does not extend to his own narcissistic tendencies, and whose disregard for the distress he causes others displays the same cold aloofness which his own surgeon father had shown him. John James Todd,

John James Todd is born in Scotland in 1899, and The New Confessions follows his life from childhood to a boarding school, to the Great War, to his work in silent film in Germany, to the Second World War, to America up to the 1970s. Todd's life's work is to adapt Rousseau's Confessions into film. In some ways, this novel can be introduced to prospective readers as a Forrest Gump story--history from the point of view of one man's life. But what makes this novel work is not the sweep of history

I recently reread The New Confessions by William Boyd. This is one of my favorite books, and rereading it is always a pleasure. That can't be said about a lot of books, even ones I liked a lot the first time around. The Baron in the Trees also has that quality, and they have an unusual connection in that each touches on the European Enlightenment.The New Confessions is about a peripatetic English filmmaker whose career reminds one a little of Abel Gance here, Luis Bunuel there, with some D.W.

This book bears re-reading. It is effectively a social history of the first half of the twentieth century. I wish I was familiar with "The Confessions" by Jean Jacques Rousseau, because I am sure I missed many parallels between the two books and the lives of their authors, one real, one fictional.