MARC WEITZMANN
La part sauvage (Grasset)
The drama of a country told through the work and friendship of one of its greatest writers.
"Philip Roth died on May 22, 2018. I had met him almost twenty years earlier, in 1999?twenty years that, from Jerusalem to New York and Paris, had seen the global world explode, hatred and populism overwhelm everything and my own life turn upside down, but during which we had become friends. He had acted as a mental refuge and compass in my life and in the lives of his readers.
And now that he was dying, the country that had provided the raw material for his books was being unraveled by Donald Trump.
The intimate shock of his death then took on a new meaning: that of finding a world at the mercy of violence, of the rise of anti-Semitism, of the return in force of ideologies.
La part sauvage (Grasset)
The drama of a country told through the work and friendship of one of its greatest writers.
"Philip Roth died on May 22, 2018. I had met him almost twenty years earlier, in 1999?twenty years that, from Jerusalem to New York and Paris, had seen the global world explode, hatred and populism overwhelm everything and my own life turn upside down, but during which we had become friends. He had acted as a mental refuge and compass in my life and in the lives of his readers.
And now that he was dying, the country that had provided the raw material for his books was being unraveled by Donald Trump.
The intimate shock of his death then took on a new meaning: that of finding a world at the mercy of violence, of the rise of anti-Semitism, of the return in force of ideologies.
