How did Lucien Ginsburg become Serge Gainsbourg?
How would he talk about his youth and the start of his career?
By slipping into the artist's head, the novelist Éric Paradisi manages to imagine him.
With impressive empathy, thanks to one of these invisible twins of souls, his
Gainsbourg novel
brings to life and speak the sensitive, emotional, melancholic, morbidly shy man, as much as the demanding, uncompromising author-composer.
Paradisi opted for I.
His writing has movement, liveliness and poetry: through it, Gainsbourg truly expresses himself, a creative existence is illuminated.
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Lucien Ginsburg was born a few years before the start of the persecution of European Jews.
“
Go and hide in the forest
”, he will hear in 1944, a primordial scene.
The Ginsburgs escape deportation.
At home, “
in an integrated secular Ashkenazi family, zakouskis rub shoulders with ham
”, words flow in Russian and Yiddish, the…
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