Laurent Seksik: 3 books

On 22 February 1942 Stefan Zweig, one of the most popular authors of his generation, committed suicide with his wife Lotte. The final, desperate gesture of this great writer has fascinated ever since. Zweig was an exile, driven from his home in Austria by the Nazis. Fleeing first to London,...

Following his bestseller The Last Days of Stefan Zweig (2013), the new play by Laurent Seksik evokes the last three years of Amedeo Modigliani's life until his first success in London; his relationships with his lover Jeanne Hebuterne, with her disapproving and overbearing mother Eudoxie, and his art dealer Leopold Zborowski.

Phoenix, Arizona. 1962. JFK has been elected and the Cuban Missile Crisis shakes the United States. Fond of vast spaces, Scott Hatford is a young dreamer who treasures short moments of grace with a loving mother, and tries to escape the violence of a broken father returned from the war. One October...