A recognized specialist in cross-biographies (the Heredia sisters, the Rouarts, Camille and Paul Claudel, Jean Voilier and Paul Valéry, etc.), Dominique Bona tackles, in Les Partisans, two outstanding literary figures of the 20th century: Joseph Kessel and
Maurice
Druon , the uncle and the nephew, co-authors of the
Chant des partisans
.
Following step by step the immense journalist and the future author of the
Accursed Kings
, from the London of Free France to the French Academy, she marvelously describes the fraternal bond which unites them and is coupled with a rare complicity of authors.
LE FIGARO.
- Kessel and Druon have a lot in common, and not just their family tree: they are writers, resistance fighters, women's men, childless, academics, right-wingers...
Dominique Bona.
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With left-wing ideas.
Kessel is anti-Bolshevik but at bottom he is apolitical.
He is interested in the individual.
He always said:
“Behind the great story, there are men.
And I love men."
Read alsoJoseph Kessel at his work table
Among men, his choices…
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