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Nights Of Princes (novel)
''Princes of the Night'' (French: ''Nuits de princes'') is a novel by the writer Joseph Kessel which was originally published in 1927. It is set amongst the community of White Russian exiles in Paris. Adaptations The novel has been made into films on three occasions. A 1930 adaptation directed by Marcel L'Herbier and starring Gina Manès. This was remade in 1938 by Vladimir Strizhevsky with Käthe von Nagy in the lead role. A separate German-language version '' After Midnight'' was also produced at his time by Carl Hoffmann with Gina Falckenberg Gina Falckenberg (14 September 1907 – 12 February 1996) was a German stage and film actress. She appeared in 22 films during her career, including '' Anime in tumult'' (1942). Falckenberg was also a writer and worked on several screenplays. She ... appearing.Goble p.249 References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. 1927 French novels Novels by Joseph Kessel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Kessel
Joseph Kessel (10 February 1898 – 23 July 1979), also known as "Jef", was a French journalist and novelist. He was a member of the Académie française and Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour. Biography Kessel was born to a Argentine Jews, Jewish family in Villa Clara, Entre Ríos, Villa Clara, Entre Ríos Province, Entre Ríos, Argentina, because of the constant journeys of his father, a Lithuanian Jews, Litvak physician. From 1905 to 1908, Joseph Kessel lived the first years of his childhood in Orenburg, Russia, before the family moved to France in 1908. He studied in ''lycée Masséna'', Nice and lycée Louis-le-Grand, Paris and took part in the First World War as an aviator. He was also an aviator during the Second World War, in the Free French (No. 342 Squadron RAF, 342 Squadron RAF) with RAF Bomber Command, with Romain Gary, who was also a talented French novelist. Kessel wrote several novels and books that were later represented in the cinema, notably ''Belle de jour ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Käthe Von Nagy
Ekaterina Nagy von Cziser, better known by her stage name Käthe von Nagy (4 April 1904 – 20 December 1973), was a Hungarian actress, model, dancer, and singer who worked in the German and French cinema. Early life and education Käthe von Nagy, the daughter of a wealthy bank manager and part of an aristocratic Serbian family, spent very little time at monastery school."Portrait of the Actress Käthe von Nagy" cyranos.ch; retrieved 30 May 2014. When she wanted to get married at age 16, her parents did not approve and placed her in the ''Sancta Christiana'' Convent in near t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novels By Joseph Kessel
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the la, novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning "new". Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, John Cowper Powys, preferred the term "romance" to describe their novels. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, in Chivalric romance, and in the tradition of the Italian renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, especially the historica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
