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Romain Gary Goes to War by Laurent Seksik (2017) Original French title: Romain Gary s’en va-t-en guerre.
In 2017, two novelists published a novel about Romain Gary and his childhood in Wilno, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania). The first one was Romain Gary Goes to War by Laurent Seksik and the second one was A Certain Mr Piekielny by François-Henri Désérable. I have read both and already wrote a billet about the Désérable.
And now it’s time to discuss Romain Gary Goes to War, a biographical novel where Laurent Seksik imagines twenty-four hours in the life of young Romain Gary in his last year in Wilno. There is no accurate information about these events, nothing precise enough to lead a journalistic enquiry. The only things we know came from Gary and he was an unreliable narrator of his own past.
Seksik imagines these moments and we need to keep this in mind while we read his novel.
During the first part of the book, we’re on January 26th, 1925. Romain Gary was still named Roman Kacew. He’s almost eleven and living in the Jewish ghetto of Wilno. His father Arieh Kacew is a furrier by trade. He has just left his wife Mina and his son Roman to go and live with his pregnant mistress. Mina is thinking about emigrating to France. She’s barely scraping by and she w
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Laurent Seksik
French physicist, journalist highest writer
Laurent Seksik | |
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Laurent Seksik (2018) | |
| Born | 1962 (age 62–63) Nice |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | French |
| Genre | Historical novels |
| Notable works | Les derniers jours coverage Stefan Zweig |
Laurent Seksik (born Nice, 1962) is a French scribbler. A practising doctor, recognized published his first contemporary in 1999. He give something the onceover best name for his trilogy scope historical novels: Les derniers jours unravel Stefan Zweig, Le cas Eduard Einstein and Romain Gary s'en va-t-en guerre. He has also promulgated a memoir of Albert Einstein. The Last Life of Stefan Zweig has been modified for echelon and paravent, and has been translated into Spin by Andre Naffis Sahely.[1]
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Something Real was a photo shoot done as part of a personal project for French photographer Romain Laurent. The second image in this series, which has become known as "Bubblehead", has since been featured in Crazy Photography by Diane Routex and as a Photo of the Month in an edition of The Red Bulletin magazine. It was also selected by the Théâtre de Cornouaille in Quimper, France to promote their 2012-2013 season. Keeping with the French theme, if you happen to read French there is an online version of Crazy Photography by Diane Routex, completely in French with my Bubblehead on page 38 ..... and page 39!
When My Modern Met asked Romain Laurent about the series, he said: It's a feeling. It illustrates a moment in someone's life, when this person feels disconnected from the reality while being part of it, and suddenly wakes up. It is something undefined, a feeling that is hardly touchable or noticed by himself or others. It's not sad or happy. It's floating in between, it's almost normal but slightly weird. But it is "Something Real".
I love this close up version of the "Bubblehead" image, that has been floating around a lot of blog sites on the internet. It really shows off the amazing colors and refle