2023-08-15 19:02:00
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DiCaprio and Scorsese swear by him. Meeting with this outstanding storyteller, whose “Les Naufragés du Wager” appears in France.
By Florence Colombani
Inseparable. The writer (right) with Martin Scorsese, who has just adapted his novel “Killers of the Flower Moon”. Published on 08/15/2023 at 7:02 p.m.
Here is a man who has told the Amazon jungle like no one else (The Lost City of Z, Robert Laffont, 2010), the rigors of Antarctica (The White Darkness, Éditions du Sous-sol, 2021) and, in his latest book, Les Naufragés du Wager (Editions du Sous-sol) – in bookstores on August 25 –, the treacherous waters of Cape Horn. “Believe me, I’m not an athlete or an adventurer! laughs David Grann. My natural environment is my office. I’d rather spend hours digging through archives than navigate in bad weather, and I’m quite capable of getting lost on the subway in New York. And yet! The New Yorker journalist brings the spirit of Jack London and Herman Melville to life in his works of “literary non-fiction” – that very American genre of r…
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