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Delphine Horvilleur: "This identity assignment to be his religion, his ethnicity, his skin color, it's a crap"

2022-09-24T03:51:46.097Z


With her book There is no Ajar, the rabbi and writer interferes with the “double I” of Romain Gary and plays with his work to counter the identity obsessions of the time.


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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The literary trick will be revealed in 1981 in a posthumous will of the master writer.

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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