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Emyl Azhar bukvalno vorvalsya v lyteraturu v 1974 godu. Ego oshelomlyayushchyy uspekh prevzoshel vse ozhydanyya skryvshegosya pod etym psevdonymom znamenytogo Romena Gary. Eto stalo samoy gromkoy lyteraturnoy mystyfykatsyey KhKh veka. Tayna byla raskryta tolko posle samoubyystva Gary v ego posmertno opublykovannom tekste “Zhyzn y smert Emylya Azhara”. Tak Gary-Azhar okazalsya edynstven-nym pysatelem, udostoennym Gonkurovskoy premyy dvazhdy: pervyy raz kak Romen Gary za knygu “Korny neba” (1956), vtoroy — dvadtsat let spustya za “azharovskyy” roman “Vsya zhyzn vperedy” (1975). Vtoruyu premyyu, prysuzhdennuyu “Azharu”, Gary prynyat otkazalsya. “Vsya zhyzn vperedy”— ystoryya arabskogo malchyka-syroty, kotorogo vospytyvaet staraya evreyskaya zhenshchyna, chudom utselevshaya v natsystskom lagere smerty. Madam Roza derzhyt u sebya v kvartyre pansyon dlya detey paryzhskykh prostytutok. Malenkyy Momo nykogda ne vydel ny ottsa, ny matery. On lyubyt madam Rozu bolshe vsekh na svete y rastet v postoyannom strakhe poteryat ee. Roman stal myrovoy sensatsyey y byl dvazhdy ekranyzyrovan. Fylm 1977 goda s Symonoy Synore v glavnoy roly poluchyl “Oskara” za luchshyy ynostrannyy fylm. V ytalyanskoy ekranyzatsyy 2020 goda glavnuyu rol sygrala Sofy Loren. Publykuetsya v novom perevode Nataly Mavlevych.

Emil Azhar literally broke into literature in 1974. His stunning success surpassed all expectations of the famous Romain Gary hiding under this pseudonym. It became the most notorious literary hoax of the twentieth century. The mystery was revealed only after Gary's suicide in his posthumously published text “The Life and Death of Emil Azhar.” Thus, Gari-Azhar turned out to be the only writer who was awarded the Goncourt Prize twice: the first time as Romain Gari for the book “The Roots of Heaven” (1956), the second — twenty years later for the "Azhar” novel “The Whole Life Ahead" (1975). Gary refused to accept the second prize awarded to Azhar. “The whole life is ahead” is the story of an Arab orphan boy who is raised by an old Jewish woman who miraculously survived the Nazi death camp. Madame Rosa runs a boarding school for the children of Parisian prostitutes in her apartment. Little Momo had never seen his father or mother. He loves Madame Rosa more than anyone else in the world and grows up in constant fear of losing her. The novel became a worldwide sensation and was filmed twice. The 1977 film starring Simone Signoret won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film. In the Italian film adaptation of 2020, Sophia Loren played the main role. Published in a new translation by Natalia Mavlevich.