This is so biographers, quick to search the slightest detail of the life of their subject, while remaining very discreet on theirs. Pierre Assouline, a great specialist in Gaston Gallimard, Serge Dassault, Simenon, Hergé, Cartier-Bresson, etc. does not derogate from the rule. Also we are particularly attracted and seduced to reading The announcement (Gallimard), who lifts a veil on his journey. It was a little over two years ago, the Goncourt juror decided to evoke a striking part of his youth, in the guise of his narrator, Raphaël, 20 years old in October 1973. On October 6, war From the Kippur bursts, the Nanterre History Student, a member of the Liaison Committee for Socialist Zionist students, volunteers to help the Israelis, even if it means sorry his parents, already bruised by the death of a son. Here he is in a village (Mochav) to take care of the turkeys of a farm, whose father is on the front – a challenge for this urban intellectual, who dreams of going to listen to his “God”, Leonard Cohen, which multiplies wild concerts for soldiers on the front. He will never meet Leonard, but Esther, of Moroccan Jewish origin too, of whom he falls in love, and whose mission, within the army, is to announce to families the death of one of their own, announced who announces Provoked the amazement, anger and psychic disorder and reminded Raphaël that, terrible, of the deadly accident of his brother – and the reading, lightning, ofA woman fleeing the announcementby David Grossman.
Fifty years later, Raphaël-Pierre has been returned to France for a long time, when Hamas operates his massacre on October 7, which pushes the writer to add a chapter to his “true novel”. He imagines Raphaël on pilgrimage on the spot on D-Day (he will only go a few weeks later) and finding, by chance, Esther, whose granddaughter, who does his military service, is … psychologist in the army. In doing so, the author evokes the hatred of the rekindled Jews, the resilience of the country, regrets the time of Golda Meir … Pierre Assouline feared playing the veterans, that he is not worried, nothing like in his story All frankly and accuracy. MP
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