He didn't want to tell his life story, but in the end he wrote 500 pages.
He cheerfully tells the story of a "good for nothing" who has made a good life.
Elie Barnavi narrates the transhumance of a Jewish child from the marches of the Soviet Empire to brand new Israel.
Then his learning of the French language, his choice to teach contemporary history, his political battles within the Labor Party, his indirect participation in the Oslo peace accords (1993) and at the Camp David summit (2000), finally, his passage through the Israeli Embassy in France.
Barnavi is the typical product of a temperate Israeli left, who dreams of a strong relationship between his country and France and Europe.
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A point on which he was constantly disappointed, he who witnessed the formation of a young nation, while Europe was sinking into postmodern aquoibonism.
But history comes back through the window, even when the door is double-locked.
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