Through its evocative power, literature enriches the economy. The four novels selected by "Le Figaro" illustrate better than the best textbooks the influence of socio-economic changes on individual destinies.
Hilarious, cruel and crazy, The Bonfire of Vanities propelled its author, journalist Tom Wolfe, to the rank of the greats of American literature. Sold in more than two million copies, the novel embraces all the excesses of 1980s New York: the hybris of Wall Street, the obsessions of the ultrarich, the cynicism of politicians, the class struggle and racial conflicts… When he published The Bonfire of Vanities, at age 57, Wolfe was known as one of the heralds of the “new journalism” .
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Scarecrow of the intelligentsia, he published lively reports on the conquest of space, the hippies or modern art. His story about a social evening given by the conductor Leonard Bernstein in honor of the Black Panthers where, "supreme touch to the chic decoration
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