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Index
Contents
About the Book
About the Author
Also by David Bellos
List of Illustrations
Title Page
Abbreviations
An Introduction to Romain Gary
I: Life
1. Self-Determination. Eastern Europe, 1815–1946
2. The Child. Wilno and Warsaw, 1914–1928
3. The Cosmopolitan. Nice, 1928–1934
4. The Cossack and the Cucumber
5. The Student. Aix-en-Provence and Paris, 1934–1938
6. The Hero. Military Service, 1938–1945
7. The Novelist. A European Education, 1943–1945
8. Gary and Charles de Gaulle
9. Gary’s Politics
10. Sex
II: Works
11. The Books Gary Wrote
12. Games with Names
13. The Way Gary Wrote
14. What Gary Meant
III: The Good Fight
15. Gandhi’s Ham Sandwich. Tulipe, 1945–1970
16. Gary the Rat. Sofia, 1947
17. Diplomacy. Gary at the UN, 1952–1954
18. Masquerade. Gary in London, 1954–1955
19. Top Prize. Los Angeles, 1956
IV: The Big Time
20. Changing Faces. Writing in English, 1958–1974
21. A Pen for Hire
22. ‘It’s Over …’. Promise at Dawn, 1958–1960
23. Celebrity Spouse. On the Road, 1960–1979
24. If at first you don’t succeed … Gary on Stage and Screen, 1945–1974
25. Cultural Legitimacy. Pour Sganarelle, 1965
V: All of the Above
26. ‘The problem is the human race.’ Genghis Cohn and White Dog, 1966–1970
27. ‘A Mysterious and Astonishing Adventure.’ Gros-Câlin, 1972–1974
28. Belleville Rendezvous. Life Before Us, 1975
29. ‘In the Sombre Folds of Life.’ Womanlight and The Way Out, 1975–1977
30. Hocus Bogus, 1976
31. Happy Ends. King Solomon and The Kites, 1977–1980
32. Last Rites
Works Cited
Notes
References
Acknowledgements
Appendices
I: Curriculum vitae
II: The Works of Romain Gary
III: A Bibliography of Gary in English
IV: A Filmography of Gary and Seberg from 1960 to 1972
Index of Names
Index of Titles
Copyright
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