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“He was the one who broke the deadlocks”: Albert Londres, the prince of great reporters

2024-03-17T06:07:30.704Z

Highlights: “He was the one who broke the deadlocks”: Albert Londres, the prince of great reporters. Class, elegance, freedom and independence of mind, audacity and curiosity, taste for formula and verve, a voracious appetite for adventure. He was this man of the pen doubled as a white knight and a righter of wrongs, defender of great humanitarian causes, slayer of injustices. He escaped from a novel by Joseph Conrad or from a Rimbaudian legend.


PORTRAIT - Reissues of his works, biographies, studies... The “poet of immediate history” has never really left the literary and journalistic scene since his tragic and mysterious disappearance in the Red Sea in 1932.


Class, elegance, freedom and independence of mind, audacity and curiosity, taste for formula and verve, a voracious appetite for adventure... He was the prince of the great reporters, the “poet of immediate history” from the underbelly of Paris to the sidewalks of Buenos Aires, from the penal colony of Cayenne and the insane asylums in the land of the Soviets, to the depths of the Balkans and the Polish ghettos, in passing through China and India, Africa, Lebanon and Palestine of Jewish settlers.

Albert Londres was this man of the pen doubled as a white knight and a righter of wrongs, defender of great humanitarian causes, slayer of injustices, character of his tormented, colorful century, escaped from a novel by Joseph Conrad or from a Rimbaudian legend.

Jean Lacouture said:

“He was the one who broke the bolts.

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