It was in 1978, two years before his death.
To the question
“Grow old?”
, asked by journalist Caroline Monney, he replied:
“Catastrophe.
But that won't happen..."
Forty-one years after his disappearance, Romain Gary has not aged.
Admittedly, the flamboyant character has sometimes overshadowed the writer.
From him, we readily remember the aviator hero of Free France;
the chameleon, who wrote several novels under the assumed name of Émile Ajar;
suicide, December 2, 1980, shot in the mouth with a Smith & Wesson revolver.
But the legend that he himself built should not make us forget his literary genius, nor the visionary character of many of his novels.
"A current and universal voice, yesterday's words to say something about today's world",
summarizes the journalist and writer Éric Fottorino.
Advocacy for the preservation of elephants,
The Roots of the Sky
(Prix Goncourt 1956) is one of the first great ecological novels.
Gary was just as pioneering on the questions…
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