You never get bored reading Christophe Donner.
From the first pages of
La France goy
, a limpid style, short and well-paced chapters invite us on a breathtaking adventure - far from those writing workshops that some confuse with literature ... And what an adventure, since it is tis the disconcerting epic of French anti-Semitism at the heart of what was not yet called the Belle Époque.
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by Christophe Donner: the morning of the magicians
The author had already mentioned this end of the 19th century in
What men play
, a portrait of Joseph Oller, the inventor of horse racing and the Moulin Rouge.
This time, he placed at the heart of his story a much less sympathetic figure: that of Édouard Drumont whose name has more or less survived as an incarnation, and even as the creator of the anti-Semitic obsession that grew in France after the defeat. from 1870. The character is unattractive, ugly,
"corrupt, impious and ill-mannered"
, but carried by a hateful obsession and a volubility bordering on talent.
Delusional and seductive
It is besides,
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