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In death, Orson Welles remains a legendary, outsized, and ambiguous figure. Conrad’s study is a critical biography of Welles, viewing the man through the optic of his sprawling and yet utterly singular body of work. This is not a debunking of the well-aired Welles-as-Genius myth so much as an attempt to identify and examine the wellsprings of his polymorphous gifts.
At times (and fittingly, given his well-known fondness for magic) Orson Welles seemed to be capable of anything; and yet finally he achieved only a fraction of what he had hoped to. Peter Conrad goes in search of the man through expert examination of the many and varied personae that Welles adopted – from Faust to Falstaff, The Shadow to Harry Lime – in a life lived at large across stage, screen, and airwaves.
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