Title : Autobiography of my father - Pierre Pachet - book
Summary :
Why revive the man with whom one has spoken so little, one's own father, and of whom one quickly points out that he was "in no way a hero"? To settle scores? Certainly not.
By choosing to write an autobiography of his father in the first person, the author takes a risky literary gamble that he masterfully wins. Dr. Simkha Opachevsky, a "Jew of his time," born in Russia in 1905 and died in Vichy in 1965, was undoubtedly not the perfect father figure that everyone dreams of.
But the novel of his life, influenced by exile, wars, and then, in France, the Nazi occupation, recounted with intense sobriety, gives voice to a man whose wealth is revealed like a treasure throughout the pages.
It is this "voice," which remained internal until his own son gave it a voice here, which makes the magic of this book: familiar, authoritative, enigmatic. As Pierre Pachet says, "the words of my dead father demanded to speak through me as they had never spoken before, beyond our two combined forces."
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EAN : 9782253082873
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