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Through the story of Antonia, the young photojournalist having experienced the struggles within the Corsican independence movement and the war in Yugoslavia, Ferrari writes about the painful strangeness of all kinds of representations and explores the ambiguous links between image, photography, reality, and death.
What is the relationship between photography and reality? How drastically can the photographer’s eye interfere in the truth of a scene? Is the stereotype “a picture speaks a thousand words ” really valid? Starting with the story of Antonia – the teenager longing to trap the moment in her camera lens, the young photojournalist thrown into the arms of a charming Corsican nationalist and having experienced the struggles within the island’s independence movement, the mature photographer who lived through the horror of the war in Yugoslavia-, Jérôme Ferrari delivers a shocking novel about the obscenity of war and human atrocity. Speaking, through the experience of Antonia, about the painful strangeness of all kinds of representations, the author explores the ambiguous links between image, photography, reality, and death. The author has been awarded the Prix Goncourt 2012 for his book “Le sermon sur la chute de Rome”.
Turning a tender and sardonic look at human weakness, Jérôme Ferrari narrates the story of a Corsican photojournalist with the limpidity of a Voltaire and the empathy of a Bernanos.
We leave the reading of the new novel Jerome Ferrari, “In His Own Image”, astonished, dumbfounded by the intelligence and power of the story, surprised about its construction and its plot twists, once again enthralled by the diabolical flexibility of writing.
A snapshot after another, Ferrari completes the puzzle of a life when her thread was violently cut and cogitates on the limited boundaries of photography… Sober-minded, intelligent, emotional and sometimes funny, this requiem of Antonia does not preach and that’s why it touches the heart so much.
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