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The New Confessions is the fourth novel by the Scottish writer William Boyd published in 1987. The theme and narrative structure of the novel is modelled on Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Les Confessions, the reading of which has a huge impact on the protagonist's life.
When he becomes a prisoner of war, he discovers Rousseau’s Confessions, and dedicates his life to bringing the memoir to the silver screen. Plagued by bad luck and blind ambition, Todd becomes a celebrated London upstart, a Weimar luminary, and finally a disgruntled director of cowboy movies and the eleventh member of the Hollywood Ten.
Oct 1, 2000 · John James Todd is born in Scotland in 1899, and The New Confessions follows his life from childhood to a boarding school, to the Great War, to his work in silent film in Germany, to the Second World War, to America up to the 1970s. Todd's life's work is to adapt Rousseau's Confessions into film.
Jul 14, 2021 · The new confessions. by. Boyd, William, 1952-. Publication date. 1987. Publisher. London : Hamish Hamilton. Collection.
When he becomes a prisoner of war, he discovers Rousseau's Confessions, and dedicates his life to bringing the memoir to the silver screen. Plagued by bad luck and blind ambition, Todd becomes a...
The New Confessions. William Boyd. Hamish Hamilton, 1987 - Fiction - 462 pages. The outrageous, extraordinary, hilarious and heartbreaking autobiography of John James Todd, a Scotsman...
The New Confessions. William Boyd. William Morrow & Company, $19.95 (476pp) ISBN 978-0-688-07761-7. John James Todd, the tenacious, reflective, wise, ambitious, romantic filmmaker and...
