Гор Видал. 3 октября 1925 – 31 июля 2012

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New York Times: the elegant, acerbic all-around man of letters who presided with a certain relish over what he declared to be the end of American civilization, died on Tuesday at his home in the Hollywood Hills section of Los Angeles, where he moved in 2003, after years of living in Ravello, Italy. He was 86... Mr. Vidal was, at the end of his life, an Augustan figure who believed himself to be the last of a breed, and he was probably right. Few American writers have been more versatile or gotten more mileage from their talent.

Кристофер Хитченс: the witty, tough-minded subversive of American letters, the 20th century’s only possible answer to Oscar Wilde

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