- 2018 Viewbug Community Choice Award
Mémoires
d'un fils de nazis
“Je suis né en 1937. Mon père, duquel je me souviens si peu, à part cette image où je le vois me prenant dans ses bras et me soulevant très haut dans les airs, est mort dans un accident de voiture quelques mois avant la déclaration de la guerre. Petit, il paraît que je ne cessais de le réclamer lorsqu’il était au travail, ma mère, elle, en était très fière, car il comptait parmi les hautes autorités du Parti, faisant de nous une famille respectée ...”
La première partie de ces ‘Mémoires’ est le texte de l’auteur le plus largement diffusé dans le monde. Il a paru dans des revues littéraires en français (l’Autre Journal, le Bulletin de la Fondation Auschwitz, Les Cahiers du Sens, etc.), en anglais, toujours dans sa propre version, aussi bien aux Etats-Unis, qu’au Canada, en Grande Bretagne et en Inde , réédité à plusieurs reprises, ainsi qu’en traduction italienne, allemande , grecque, turque et polonaise. En août 2014, ce même texte a été pré-sélectionné, sous le titre de 'Venitian Thresholds', par l'American Gem and Filmmakers Literary Festival.
I-SRAELI SYNDROME
Published by l'Aleph in November 2013
2009 BOOK AWARDS www.indieexcellence.com
Multicultural Fiction Finalist
formerly
Shalom Tower Syndrome was also a Finalist in the "Fiction & Literature"category at
The National Best Books 2007 Awards.
It was also released in 2008 in Italian by Edizioni Fabio Croce
The novel is set in Israel. Alexis, who grew up in Rwanda-Burundi, is the son of an Italian Jew and a beautiful mulatto woman. As a young adult, he now queries the complexity of his roots: African-European and Judeo-Christian (his mother was raised a Catholic). The author guides the reader through a progression of exciting and complicated episodes involving Alexis. With his American wife he will vacation in Israel, and that stay will be a turning point in his life. The past catches up with him, exploding with the images of one man's life kaleidoscope: the memories of his African years, colliding with the more recent images of Milan, the smells, the colors and the primeval beauty of the black continent, mingling with those of Italy, as well as with the violent feelings Israel stirs in him. In that dense and haunting atmosphere he will meet young Israelis, a Palestinian and a German professor, the nephew of a Nazi soldier who died during WWII. Will Alexis finally reconcile himself with the conflicting parts of his identity? Will he feel more African or more European; more Catholic or more Jewish; or will his new environment help him find peace within himself, in spite of the country’s current dangers? The ‘mystery’ will unravel in the last chapter of this largely autobiographical novel. ‘There is a type of novel whose aim, as Jonathan Swift wrote of his intention behind Gulliver's Travels, is to “vex the world rather than divert it.” If it's a good and true novel then it will inevitably also serve both as a vexatious testament and a diverting read. Such is Albert Russo's I-sraeli Syndrome.
I-sraeli Syndrome is very much a biography of the soul, and as much as that of any latter-day Harry Haller, and Russo seems to have dredged in its pages the depths of his own being in order to have written it.’
David Alexander
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Excerpt from James Baldwin's letter to the author, penned the year of his death: “I like your work very much indeed. It has a very gentle surface and a savage under-tow. You're a dangerous man.”
See the author's own French version entitled LA TOUR SHALOM, published by Editions Hors Commerce in 2005 . SHALOM TOWER SYNDROME was also published in Italian in 2008 by Libreria Edizioni Croce
Albert RUSSO
in Montauk, Long Island, New York
Sang mêlé
Le grand roman
d'Albert Russo
Editions France Loisirs
Some of my photos were exhibited at the
Museum of Photography in Lausanne, Switzerland, in Times Square (NYC), at the Louvre Museum, the Pierre Cardin Space, both in Paris, and in Venice
Quelques unes de mes photos ont été exposées au
Musée de l'Elysée à Lausanne, à Times Square, au Louvre, à l'espace Cardin à Paris et à Venise
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www.viewbug.com/member/albertrusso
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http://artbook.gallery/albert.
THE BENEVOLENT AMERICAN
IN THE HEART OF DARKNESS
A trilogy of Albert Russo’s
award-winning
African novels set in
the former Belgian Congo
and Rwanda-Urundi
XLibris - English
- Lettre de James Balwin à Albert Russo à propos de 'Sang Mêlé ':
“... J’aime votre écriture, car dans un style policé vous exprimez des sentiments violents, faisant éclater des vérités terrifiantes.”
- Voici ce que le grand écrivain contemporain, Edmund White, l'auteur de la magistrale biographie de Jean Genet et de romans à succès, dit de SANG MELE :
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"Albert Russo a su recréer, à travers les joies et les angoisses d'un jeune métis congolais, les tensions de la vie moderne, qu'il s'agisse des relations entre noirs et blancs, entre le Tiers monde et nos sociétés technologiquement avancées, ou de la question toujours épineuse de l'homosexualité ... SANG MELE est un roman que l'on ne lache pas, tel quel, il est envoûtant."
The Norwegian Public Schools have chosen Albert Russo's poem LOST IDENTITY for their students' (close to 2,000) final English examinations, before they can enter university.
City of lovers / of wonder
Parie la Grosse Pomme
Indie excellence finalist
Both books lauded by the Mayor of New York City
New York at heart
New York au coeur
Indie excellence finalist
Body glorious /
Corps à corps
Books And Authors 2008 WINNER
Indie excellence finalist
Photolaureate 2009
Ville d’Avray, France
Albert Russo
in his NYC apartment
in Montauk, Long Island,
New York
Bruxelles au galop
Brussels Ride
All photos and English book covers are by /
Toutes les photos et couvertures de livres en anglais sont de /
ALBERT RUSSO
Featured Artist
INSPIRATION ARTBOOK
VIEWbug rockstar award
twilight in Venice
Svalbard, North Pole
and Peer awards
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Rockstar award for tropical flowers in TLV
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- RAINBOW IN NORWAY'S FJORDS
A L B ER T R U S S O
aging among the fish
with Congolese friends
with the Director
of the philantropic Sarvodaya
in Sri Lanka
receiving the British Diversity Award in London, United Kingdom
at UNESCO
with Director Mr M'Bow and African friends
acting in Paris theater
with French actress Suzanne Flon
in Brugge, Belgium
in Milan, Italy
Graduation
New York University
in Berlin, Germany
in Laeken, Belgium
presenting his first book on television
in Palma de Mallorca, Spain
jiving with his little sister in Usumbura, Ruanda-Urundi
with his beloved mother in front of lake Kivu, Eastern Congo
in Kobe, Japan
in Sion, Switzerland
with his cousin Reggie in Rhodesia / Zimbabwe
with his parents in
Cape Town, South Africa
- Best Israeli photographer
35Awards - Moscow
Bryggen: Bergen, Norway
Halong Bay - Vietnam
Valencia sand art - Spain
A L B E R T R U S S O Bilingual Writer / Photographer Auteur Bilingue / Photographe
.ENGLISH
You are on the official website of the author, Albert RUSSO. The website was entirely refounded. The accent was put on the simplicity of use – the beginners in computer science as the most experimented will be able to sail and go through different rubrics simply. Since the works of the author have been written originally in English and in French, the website appears in both languages.
FRANCAIS
Vous êtes sur le site officiel de l'écrivain, Albert RUSSO. Le site a été entièrement refondé. L'accent a été mis sur la simplicité d'utilisation - les novices en informatique comme les plus expérimentés pourront naviguer et parcourir les différentes rubriques en toute simplicité. Les œuvres de l'auteur écrites à l'origine en français ou en anglais, il était tout a fait naturel que le site soit rédigé à la fois en français et en anglais.
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THE ECHOES OF BLISS, THE CRIES OF PAIN
ALBERT RUSSO
Music can lift you to the skies
or else fray your nerves and
hurl you into the foulest mood.
At times it is so soft and relieving
that your body begins to shudder,
and each one of your pores
opens up like the myriad dandelions
which you see from your window
as the sun rises down in the valley.
Your skin then becomes a live tapestry,
bristling with millions of tiny ears:
they listen in unison, and lest
the harmony be broken you will
yourself to stay rooted to your chair.
Then suddenly, as you continue
to let the music seep in
you are reminded of that man
found sitting erect with both hands
spread out in a startled attitude,
literally petrified, in Pompeii,
when the Vesuvius erupted.
From this instant onwards
there is a split, and you lose
the sense of your physicality,
your body becomes a stranger,
while the music is all that exists.
A thunder suddenly breaks the flow,
and you start feeling that part of you
that was numb, blood has resumed
its coursing through your veins and
the heart is beating again under your
ribcage, with the furious and
magnificent clangor of Richard Wagner’s
Götterdämmerung.
For his new photo books, please click on Publications 2
They are all available on Amazon, worldwide
Latest titles:
1. TEL AVIV, THE KIND, THE FREE AND THE BOLD
2. TEL AVIV IN SHADES OF GREEN
3. JOSEPH PACE, HIS LIFE, HIS WORK, HIS ART
4. HUMOR & POETRY, Tomes 1, 2 & 3
5. KITTY, WOOF & Co
6. EYES OF THE BEHOLDER
7. ABSTRACT ART PHOTOGRAPHY
8. EIN HOD, AN ARTISTS' HAVEN
9. ZICHRON YAAKOV, a miracle
10. HOME AWHIRL
11. ITALIA DIVA, Rome, Naples, Florence, Venice
12. MANHATTAN LA MA-GNI-FIQUE
13. HA LONG BAY RÊVERIE, Vietnam
14. TIBERIAS on the lake of Galilee
15. MARCEL PROUST, PARIS ET MOI
16. NETANYA
17. COSTA CRUISE, Mediterranean Jewels
18. Dancing Waves
"Art is but a moment of bliss, a lightning cleaving the somber, never-ending horrors of our world." Albert Russo
Albert Russo's work has appeared in over a dozen languages
on the five continents (in 25+ countries)
Les oeuvres d'Albert Russo ont paru dans une quinzaine de langues
sur les cinq continents (dans plus de 25 pays)
Researchers and students of Albert Russo's work, please consult /
Chercheurs et étudiants intéressés par l'oeuvre d'Albert Russo, consulter
http://www.aml-cfwb.be/catalogues/general
search for Albert Russo to access his 145+ items
rechercher Albert Russo pour les 145+ rubriques de l'auteur
Consultation in loco / sur place :
ARCHIVES & MUSÉE DE LA LITTÉRATURE, Bibliothèque Royale Albert Ier
Boulevard de l'Empereur 4 - 1000 Brussels - Belgium - Tel: 02.519.5580 - Fax: 02.519.5583
Letter from JAMES BALDWIN to Albert Russo, a few months before the great African-American author and activist died
CONGO, RWANDA & BURUNDI, THE PILLARS OF MY YOUTH
CONGO, RWANDA & BURUNDI, LES PILIERS DE MA JEUNESSE
NEW REVISED EDITION COMING OUT IN SEPTEMBER 2022
African quatuor
of award-winning novels
on the Belgian Congo and Rwanda-Urundi
ZAPINETTE’S FRENCH HEROINES
Zapinette embarks on a historical journey, sometimes rewriting / re-righting the history of some of the world’s famous French women, giving them a second chance to do good and thus to become heroines, showing all of humanity what a better world should look like. That could only happen if the so-called strong sex - MCPs for the most part - treat them equally and with respect.
Hardcover: available on Amazon for $ 12.99 Paperback: available on Amazon for $ 4.99
TEL AVIV’S ETHIOPIAN QUEEN by Albert Russo & Jeanette Skirvin
Edition l’Aleph - www.l-aleph.com - Also available at Amazon, Goodreads, Waterstones, Barnes & Noble, abebooks, blackwells, etc.
luxurious hardcover
Quarterfinalist of the 2022 ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition.
Premier PRIX UNICEF First PRIZE
ZAPINETTE'S BIBLE ODYSSEY continues in Japan, Mexico and the North Pole
Zapinette lives with her mother, a staunch ‘felinist’ who owns a beauty parlor in Paris, as well as with her ‘Unky Berky’, in spite of the fact that he is “such a weirdo at times and can get on her bloomin nerves”. They will travel to four continents together and the trips promise to be quite bumpy. In this book, she investigates the BIBLE, and goes on to visit MEXICO, JAPAN and THE NORTH POLE.
SPEAK TO ME, MOTHER BELOVED is Albert Russo’s new book dedicated to his adored mother
and to POETRY, with about 140 poems and as many photos in both black and white and in color, that he took along the years on the four continents in which he has resided and during his travels around
the world.
This hardcover coffee-table volume is published by l’Aleph in Sweden
- http://l-aleph.com/project/speak-to-me-mother-beloved/ - and is available from all major online bookstores, such as Amazon, Barnes and Noble, The
Book Depository, etc.- pages 260, 8 x 10 in Case Laminate Bound on Creme -
ISBN 978-91-7637-569-3.
Book Review by the Book Excellence Awards.
SPEAK TO ME MOTHER BELOVED is a beautiful collection of poetry and images that explore a diverse set of universal themes: life, family, relationships, theology and more. In the book, author,
Albert Russo, presents an intimate look at his life, inviting the reader into a wide range of experiences that span over 40 years in history. He captures and
distills many experiences; of family, relationships, loss, and carrying on--as we all must do. The way the words that are written make you feel emotional and help you to connect to what the
writer is stating. Albert spins poems that are both deeply personal and universal.
Overall, Albert Russo stuns with an exquisite volume of original poetry.
Présentation du nouveau livre d’Albert Russo, SPEAK TO ME, MOTHER BELOVED / PARLE MOI, MÈRE CHÉRIE, hommage à
sa mère et à la POÉSIE, avec près de 140 poèmes et autant de photos en noir et blanc et en couleurs prises par l’auteur au gré de ses voyages et de ses lieux de
vie.
260 pages, grand format, sur papier glacé de luxe. ISBN 978-91-7637-569-3.
Ce livre est publié par l’Aleph en Suède - http://l-aleph.com/project/speak-to-me-mother-beloved/ -Il est disponible sur Amazon, ainsi que sur les autres grandes librairies en
ligne.
Available on Amazon, worldwide, and many online bookstores
https://www.bookdepository.com/Speak-Me-Mother-Beloved-Albert-Russo/9789176375693
CALL ME CHAMELEON, a memoir
The selective memory of a kaleidoscopic-eyed globetrotter, from age 3 to this day. This is the unconventional memoir of Albert Russo, a multicultural, multilingual author who writes in English and French, his two ‘mother’ tongues, correcting the galleys of the Italian translations of his novels himself (his ‘paternal’ tongue being Italian). His work has been translated into a dozen+ languages, including Polish, Greek, Bengali, Turkish and Chinese. He has garnered many international awards.
Excerpt from the Preface by
Adam Donaldson Powell, Poet, writer, essayist, artist, musician and Lgbt activist.
To write an autobiography is a feat that is difficult, painful, and often feels foreign due to the fact that most of the stories have already been told in various forms through fiction, essays and poetry. In addition, I knew that this was Albert's chance to let it all hang out, so-to-speak. The nice chameleon has its nasty sides -- as we all do -- and some of the anger would be sure to leak out in such a book. (A coming to terms, one might say.) And finally, this project has scared me because here he -- the chameleon -- finally reveals himself (often times through his all-too-frank alter ego Zapinette), and recounts the well-known stories from his travels to and residences in Africa, Israel, Europe and America within a human context. Within a human context ... And why is that scary? Well, fiction is often more believable than truth (read: more acceptable / comfortable than truth / real life). I saw for myself the "bad boy" chameleon, that I learned to know and love personally and in his literature, threatening to rear his beautiful head. Who was I scared for ... the chameleon, or the readers? Honestly? Both ... we are all the chameleon. Albert Russo outs us all in this book.
Albert Russo has been selected as a
Book Excellence Award Honoree in 2019
There were hundreds of entries from around the world and this book was selected for its high-quality writing, design and market appeal.
https://www.amazon.com/Call-Chameleon-selective-kaleidoscopic-eyed-globetrotter-ebook/dp/B01KFXB3RK
The e-book is 1,113 pages long, including the many photographs
Le Cap des illusions
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Roman, Ginkgo Editeur,
Paris, 2020, 144 pages,
https://www.ginkgo-editeur.fr/product-page/le-cap-des-illusionsdisponible également sur les pateformes littéraires de la Fnac, Amazon, etc.
Traduction allemande de Franz Rudolf Woll et avant-propos de Hermann Kleber, à paraître
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'En Afrique du Sud, dans les années soixante, les Debeer, famille d'Afrikaner (colons blancs d'origine hollandaise ou huguenotte), se trouvent brusquement 'déclassés', passant du statut de Blancs à celui de Métis. Prudence, soupçonnée lors de la rentrée des classes d'avoir du sang noir, doit passer devant une commission médicale. Là, un simulacre de procès aux conclusions pseudo-scientifiques (analyse des ongles, de la chevelure, etc.), permet à la Commission de décider que la famille Debeer n'est pas blanche, et que, par conséquent, elle doit être déclassée. En vertu des lois sur l'apartheid, ceux-ci doivent changer de domicile, pour s'installer dans le ghetto sur les versants de Devil's Peak, non loin du Cap dit de Bonne Espérance. Ce roman, basé sur des faits réels, nous conte l'histoire de cette brusque et tragique déchirure. L'autre aspect du récit est la vision de la société sud-africaine et de l'histoire des Debeer, telle que nous la raconte Michaël, jeune Anglais venu passer ses vacances chez son oncle au Cap. Michaël s'éprend de Prudence, mais à cause de la loi sur l'Immoralité, l'amour des deux jeunes gens de couleur différente est impossible, car interdit.
''... C'est de l'apartheid qu'il s'agit ici, cette maladie honteuse de l'Afrique du Sud d'avant Mandela, ce racisme institutionnel, froid, aseptique et comme 'venu d'ailleurs'. Il constitue la trame d'un roman poétique, et tendre, et sensuel. Ces pages sont celles d'un poète blessé dans sa chair par les griffes d'une société bête et féroce.''
Vie Ouvrière
''C'est un roman excellent où la sensibilité le dispute à la qualité des descriptions dans la peinture d'un des plus graves problèmes humains de
notre siècle, le racisme."
Les Nouvelles Littéraires
Ce roman a obtenu le Prix COLETTE ainsi que le Prix de la Liberté
DRAWINGS AND WATERCOLORS by Messire Bernard,
with digital enhancements by Albert Russo
WINNER of the 2008 AZsacra International Poetry Award
sponsored by the Taj Mahal Review, India - prize: 500 US$ -
