Fw: C of L49 For Romain Gary

[Mark Kohut]

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Subject: C of L49 For Romain Gary

Genghis Cohen, we know a play on Genghis Kahn. [ TRP on RG: not the only writer who can come up with such a trivial play on words] Cohen, like Kahn, a comic conqueror of much territory?
One of the Mongol Empire, one of the stamp market----that symbolic accumulation of countries??.............


Very Misc. Romain Gary was an interesting (enough) writer, although not even close to TRP. But one of
the most interesting aspects was his late in life "double-life", so to speak. Having become a lionized successful literary
figure in France, he hated the "tower"---my metaphor----this confined him in. So, he wrote new novels in deep secrecy, as the 'voice' of an undereducated Arabian, I believe.