Title : The Acacia - Claude Simon - book

Summary :

Closing L'Acacia, the reader has the sensation of having personally ridden in the clearings of the East in 1940, eyes burning with insomnia; of having been shot in 1914 at the edge of a wood, like a perfect poilu from L'Illustration; but also of having served in the Colonies before 1914; of having haunted the spa towns of the Belle Époque; of having opened a telegram with a widow's sobs in her throat; of having viewed snatches of "Actualités" from before the other war, sepia, quivering and mute; of having stirred these reminiscences in a shabby claque; of having felt the madness of the last two wars rising from the depths of cattle trains all over Europe; and to try to pour all this into the immediate present of writing, in front of a branch of raw green acacia... » (Bertrand Poirot-Delpech, Le Monde) The Acacia was published in 1989.

• EAN : 9782707318510
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