David Caute Livres

From his earliest years, Gamal Rahman was a troublemaker. Born in Cairo, the son of a Nobel Prize-winning novelist, Gamal began life by killing his mother in childbirth. As a journalist and tutor to the amorous daughters of President Sharaf, he found his vocation; the literary murder of presidents and princesses. Hostile to Islamic fundamentalism, Gamal finally extended his hitman's contract to God the ultimate literary commission.By the time The An Interview is published, Gamal is living in exile in England. Publicly damned and burned by incensed Muslims in the Yorkshire city of Bruddersford, his book generates communal upheaval. Racial tensions erupt. The local Labour Party becomes fiercely embroiled and long-standing alliances are shattered.Nasreen Hassani, trapped between old values and the modern quest for personal fulfillment, can no longer sustain her marriage. Children rebel against patriarchy, and Muslim girls, inspired by the fourteen-year-old Fatima, embark on a bitter strike to defend their right to wear the scarf of modesty in school. While the claims of women fuel the flames, young men embrace the Sons of Allah, dedicated to the execution of the apostate author Gamal Rahman.What should a writer owe to himself, and what to society? David Caute's new novel is a masterly penetration of the murderous conflict between Islam and Western values -- a novel of major importance for the modern world.

A gripping history of the Security Service and its covert surveillance on British writers and intellectuals in the twentieth century.

So what really happened when Sidney Pyke, 60s hangover and darling of his students found himself alone in the university pool with Bess Hooper, militant feminist and Pyke's most vocal detractor, at the end of the women's hour? From the author of "The Decline of the West" and "Veronica".

Focusing on the Cold War era, this extensive study explores how prominent novelists addressed significant political and historical themes through their works. It delves into the ways these authors captured the complexities of the time, offering insights into their narratives and the societal context that influenced their writing. Through analysis, the book reveals the intersection of literature and politics, highlighting the role of fiction in reflecting and shaping public discourse during a pivotal period in history.

Rancorous and highly public disagreements between Isaiah Berlin and Isaac Deutscher escalated to the point of cruel betrayal in the mid-1960s, yet surprisingly the details of the episode have escaped historians' scrutiny. In this gripping account of the ideological clash between two of the most influential scholars of Cold War politics, David Caute uncovers a hidden story of passionate beliefs, unresolved antagonism, and the high cost of reprisal to both victim and perpetrator. Though Deutscher (1907–1967) and Berlin (1909–1997) had much in common—each arrived in England in flight from totalitarian violence, quickly mastered English, and found entry into the Anglo-American intellectual world of the 1950s—Berlin became one of the presiding voices of Anglo-American liberalism, while Deutscher remained faithful to his Leninist heritage, resolutely defending Soviet conduct despite his rejection of Stalin's tyranny. Caute combines vivid biographical detail with an acute analysis of the issues that divided these two icons of Cold War politics, and brings to light for the first time the full severity of Berlin's action against Deutscher.

In this novel, an Oxford historian uncovers a buried event in Soviet history - a secret visit to Moscow by Pablo Picasso and Charles Chaplin in November 1952.