Originally, there was Romain Gary, born in 1914 in Vilna (Vilnius today), in the Russian Empire, emigrated to Nice in 1928, who would become a resistance fighter, writer, diplomat, author wearing a a Goncourt prize in 1956 for
The Roots of Heaven,
father of a son named Diego, and found dead by suicide on December 2, 1980, the barrel of a revolver in his mouth.
Before that, in 1975, on the lips of Tout-Paris, the name of Émile Ajar was spelled, signing a punchy novel,
La Vie avant soi.
Who is Ajar?
We grant him a first face, that of Paul Pavlowitch, nephew of Gary, guest of
Apostrophes.
But already regulars of the Gary style sniff his paw between the lines of Ajar.
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In 1974, in the east of France, a daughter was born, Delphine Horvilleur, who very early on loved books, and soon a certain Romain Gary, even more perhaps her pseudonym Émile Ajar.
Today, the writer and...
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