Un Juif pour l'exemple
ISBN:
9782246743514 (2246743516)
Publish date: January 2009
Publisher: Editions Grasset
Pages no: 103
Edition language: French
I didn't find this either terribly interesting or effective. Perhaps it sounds better in French than in translation - but it lacks plot, character, there is no development, it is essayistic but its reflections are not terribly original or memorable.
Swift and short. Mixing horror imagery with "just the (horrible) facts, Mme." And at the end, with your heart in your throat, you take a breath along with the author and somehow you are clinging to your faith and maybe crying a little. Based on a true story. Packed such a wallop I'm going to try...
This short book, the last that Chessex wrote, reminded me of Duras's L'Amant, which I read a few weeks earlier. In both, we have the author, knowing they were near death, trying to make sense of something which had haunted their dreams since their childhoods. For Duras, it was her first affair, when...
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