Romain Gary - and his most famous heteronym, Émile Ajar - is still relevant.
Two books appear about him.
They are fascinating because, each in their own way, they manage to decipher an extremely complex man who has never stopped reinventing himself.
The challenge was not small as the diplomat writer, the only novelist at the two Goncourts whose mother tongue was Russian, married a thousand identities...
Monsieur Romain Gary, writer-director
is the second volume of a trilogy.
Kerwin Spire, doctor of literature and graduate in political science, has done work that commands respect.
He follows the writer in his tracks, thus allowing the reader to accompany Gary in his slightest movements and in his most intimate thoughts.
It's very strong.
One day, Camus asked me how a writer could serve France… I answered him that any man who writes, and who writes well, serves France.
General de Gaulle
In form, this exercise resembles a novel.
Spire explains it:
“If all the facts that this narrative describes, all the characters that it summons, all the dialogues that it stages are inspired by “real events”…
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