The true -Sarah Kornefld (engleza)

The Memory Series “A Trilogy of Ghosts” is a composite of three books called THE TRUE. In 2019, world-renowned Romanian theater director Alexandru Darie died, the news shocking the creative world. Bringing Darie and Romania vividly to life, The True also tells the story of one courageous woman’s cutting through a con artist’s web of lies that mirror global corruption. The True is a hybrid of memoir, true crime, autofiction. Editura Integral is publishing the book in three languages (Romanian, English, and French). The True will have a rolling launch (October 28, 2021 for the Romanian and English. November 25, 2021 for the French) with the box-set of all three books released December 9th, 2021. The box-set is titled The True: A Trilogy of Ghosts. The book has three different endings, each translation an extension of the chaos of Kornfeld’s experience. Kornfeld and Darie had been lovers in the 1990s but remained very close friends after breaking up. When he died, Kornfeld went to Romania to search for the reason for his death. It was there she met a young Romanian woman who claimed to have been Darie’s girlfriend. Over a two-year period, Kornfeld wrote a book about Darie’s death, signed deals with Netflix and Disney for scripts about Darie (and other projects), all to devastatingly discover she had been deeply misled by a con artist. Readers of Anne Carson, Claudia Rankine, and Chris Kraus will love The True. In a post-truth world where objective standards for truth are disappearing, The True limns the slippage between facts, opinion, and belief. Informed by her early life within the experimental theater of downtown New York, Kornfeld draws on a wellspring of language from Molière to Patti Smith, Beckett to Maria Irene Fornes, and the intimacy of defiant theater friends and family. PRAISE FOR THE TRUE The Trueis Sarah Kornfeld’s personal exploration of grief and loss. What begins as an examination of a long ago love affair masterfully propels into a page turning thriller. Raised in the theater world Kornfeld plays right into the theatrics finding herself center stage struggling to decipher fact from fiction. A hauntingly beautiful tale of love, loss, politics and art that dares us all not to look away from our own disillusionment. Culminating with a crash and return that reveals while the world perhaps is not as grand as it once was, love even in death, may be the only truth that lives on." Courtney B. Vance, Tony and Emmy Award-winning Actor and Producer Sarah Kornfeld’s The True is a gorgeously written twenty‑first century postmodern literary work convincing us that we only truly know where we are when on the wrong side of the looking glass. Passion, politics, lust, and theater drag us between the surreal and the real, on both sides of the Atlantic. This is a “now” age romance‑political thriller. Kornfeld forces us to weigh what we hate against love, or at least find the middle ground between them, in order to fully live. September Williams, MD, Filmmaker, Author of the Chasing Mercury Toxic Trilogy Storytelling is a contract of trust between speaker and listener–the promise that the suspension of disbelief will be rewarded with deeper truths encoded in fiction. But “in this time of virtual lives”, Kornfeld warns, such trust is easier to manipulate than ever, and the magic of theater degenerates into propaganda and psychosis. (…) Kornfeld is humbled to discover how anyone, regardless of political beliefs or intellectual sophistication, can cling to wishful thinking as a defense against personal and historical trauma. THE TRUE is a funny, tragic, essential cautionary tale for our post‑truth era. Jendi Reiter, Author of An Incomplete List of My Wishes: Stories Intimate, funny and page‑turning, The True simultaneously expresses the ways in which we are haunted by memory and the ways we continue to con ourselves. What starts out as a love story that transcends time becomes a paean to the world of theater set against the backdrop of the AIDS crisis and crumbling Romania. This book has everything: romance, Ceaușescu, Diana Ross. Interwoven throughout, the terror and pathos of being Jewish in Europe. The long tail of the Holocaust, the (c)overt antisemitism that still comprises common parlance. What does it mean to be a Jew searching for a Jew? What is Jewish identity? What is identity? Kornfeld’s lucid prose cuts close to the heart and lends an immediacy to the whole crazy story as we watch everything unravel. The downward spiral has such a tentacular pull. I couldn’t put the book down! Emily Stone, Author of Did Jew Know The True evocatively limns the insubstantiality of the “they”: the vestiges of the self and multitude in the virtual realm; the hauntings of the living and the dead, of the past, present, and future, of the real versus the unreal; the liminality of lyings to oneself, of identity creation and fraud in many iterations. Here, the present is as mysterious as the future is uncertain, the past interro