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A wandering Jew, a naughty boy decorated with the Cross of Lorraine, a member of the resistance, consul general of France in Los Angeles, a saltimbag and adventurer, a Hollywood prophet but also an iconoclast supporter of De Gaulle, Roman Gary lived a life that promises the most exciting autobiography. But his book is not just about capturing the author’s thirst for ever-increasing challenges. It is, above all, a glorification of maternal love and its creative power.
A wandering Jew, a naughty boy decorated with the Cross of Lorraine, a member of the resistance, consul general of France in Los Angeles, a saltimbag and adventurer, a Hollywood prophet but also an iconoclast supporter of De Gaulle, Roman Gary lived a life that promises the most exciting autobiography. But his book is not just about capturing the author’s thirst for ever-increasing challenges. It is, above all, a glorification of maternal love and its creative power. Childhood memories, teenage worries, youthful madness, masculine adventures are woven on the canvas first of the Russian emigrants’ history and then of World War II. But a constant coordinate in the flood of events and the mire of misery and war is one: the mother-son relationship that occupies from end to end the author’s entire emotional field and defines his desires, choices, and in the end, his fate.
Dazzling. Each time he seeks the truth, that is, what blinds and at the same time clarifies the human gaze. And above all, it reveals that “I love” means “I narrate.”
Whatever your illness, the antidote is Romain Gary.
What a great novel his multiple lives! But also how much vulnerability they hide…
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