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L'Affaire homme
L'affaire homme réunit pour la première fois en un volume de nombreux textes de Romain Gary publiés entre 1957 – époque des Racines du ciel – et 1980, l'année de sa mort. Certains de ces textes, inconnus du public français, sont traduits de l'anglais. Il ne s'agit pas de textes de fiction, mais de prises de position, de commentaires, de réflexions et d'analyses ayant pour objet la société, l'homme, la femme, le monde comme il va – et bien souvent comme il ne va pas du tout. Gary, de fait, ne se contentait pas de s'exprimer publiquement par le biais de l'écriture romanesque ou du cinéma. Présent dans la presse française et américaine, constamment interviewé, sollicité, préfacier de lui-même parfois, des autres occasionnellement, Gary n'a pas cessé de réagir aux événements de son siècle en manifestant à chaque fois son attachement à ce principe exposé par lui au début des années cinquante : «Je ne puis défendre que mes contradictions, mes approximations, le doute qui me garde, mes vérités incertaines et mes erreurs fraternelles et il y a autour de nous, entre la vérité et l'erreur, une marge de relativité qui nous permettra toujours d'échapper à l'absurde, une marge suffisante pour y insérer notre désir triomphant.»
368 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 2005
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Romain Gary
170 books1,935 followersRomain Gary was a Jewish-French novelist, film director, World War II aviator and diplomat. He also wrote under the pen name
Émile Ajar
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Born Roman Kacew (Yiddish: קצב, Russian: Кацев), Romain Gary grew up in Vilnius to a family of Lithuanian Jews. He changed his name to Romain Gary when he escaped occupied France to fight with Great Britain against Germany in WWII. His father, Arieh-Leib Kacew, abandoned his family in 1925 and remarried. From this time Gary was raised by his mother, Nina Owczinski. When he was fourteen, he and his mother moved to Nice, France. In his books and interviews, he presented many different versions of his father's origin, parents, occupation and childhood.
He later studied law, first in Aix-en-Provence and then in Paris. He learned to pilot an aircraft in the French Air Force in Salon-de-Provence and in Avord Air Base, near Bourges. Following the Nazi occupation of France in World War II, he fled to England and under Charles de Gaulle served with the Free French Forces in Europe and North Africa. As a pilot, he took part in over 25 successful offensives logging over 65 hours of air time.
He was greatly decorated for his bravery in the war, receiving many medals and honors.
After the war, he worked in the French diplomatic service and in 1945 published his first novel. He would become one of France's most popular and prolific writers, authoring more than thirty novels, essays and memoirs, some of which he wrote under the pseudonym of Émile Ajar. He also wrote one novel under the pseudonym of Fosco Sinibaldi and another as Shatan Bogat.
In 1952, he became secretary of the French Delegation to the United Nations in New York, and later in London (in 1955).
In 1956, he became Consul General of France in Los Angeles.
He is the only person to win the Prix Goncourt twice. This prize for French language literature is awarded only once to an author. Gary, who had already received the prize in 1956 for Les racines du ciel , published La vie devant soi under the pseudonym of Émile Ajar in 1975. The Académie Goncourt awarded the prize to the author of this book without knowing his real identity. A period of literary intrigue followed. Gary's little cousin Paul Pavlowitch posed as the author for a time. Gary later revealed the truth in his posthumous book Vie et mort d'Émile Ajar .
Gary's first wife was the British writer, journalist, and Vogue editor Lesley Blanch (author of The Wilder Shores of Love ). They married in 1944 and divorced in 1961. From 1962 to 1970, Gary was married to the American actress Jean Seberg, with whom he had a son, Alexandre Diego Gary.
He also co-wrote the screenplay for the motion picture, The Longest Day and co-wrote and directed the 1971 film Kill! , starring his now ex-wife Seberg.
Suffering from depression after Seberg's 1979 suicide, Gary died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on December 2, 1980 in Paris, France though he left a note which said specifically that his death had no relation with Seberg's suicide.
Born Roman Kacew (Yiddish: קצב, Russian: Кацев), Romain Gary grew up in Vilnius to a family of Lithuanian Jews. He changed his name to Romain Gary when he escaped occupied France to fight with Great Britain against Germany in WWII. His father, Arieh-Leib Kacew, abandoned his family in 1925 and remarried. From this time Gary was raised by his mother, Nina Owczinski. When he was fourteen, he and his mother moved to Nice, France. In his books and interviews, he presented many different versions of his father's origin, parents, occupation and childhood.
He later studied law, first in Aix-en-Provence and then in Paris. He learned to pilot an aircraft in the French Air Force in Salon-de-Provence and in Avord Air Base, near Bourges. Following the Nazi occupation of France in World War II, he fled to England and under Charles de Gaulle served with the Free French Forces in Europe and North Africa. As a pilot, he took part in over 25 successful offensives logging over 65 hours of air time.
He was greatly decorated for his bravery in the war, receiving many medals and honors.
After the war, he worked in the French diplomatic service and in 1945 published his first novel. He would become one of France's most popular and prolific writers, authoring more than thirty novels, essays and memoirs, some of which he wrote under the pseudonym of Émile Ajar. He also wrote one novel under the pseudonym of Fosco Sinibaldi and another as Shatan Bogat.
In 1952, he became secretary of the French Delegation to the United Nations in New York, and later in London (in 1955).
In 1956, he became Consul General of France in Los Angeles.
He is the only person to win the Prix Goncourt twice. This prize for French language literature is awarded only once to an author. Gary, who had already received the prize in 1956 for Les racines du ciel , published La vie devant soi under the pseudonym of Émile Ajar in 1975. The Académie Goncourt awarded the prize to the author of this book without knowing his real identity. A period of literary intrigue followed. Gary's little cousin Paul Pavlowitch posed as the author for a time. Gary later revealed the truth in his posthumous book Vie et mort d'Émile Ajar .
Gary's first wife was the British writer, journalist, and Vogue editor Lesley Blanch (author of The Wilder Shores of Love ). They married in 1944 and divorced in 1961. From 1962 to 1970, Gary was married to the American actress Jean Seberg, with whom he had a son, Alexandre Diego Gary.
He also co-wrote the screenplay for the motion picture, The Longest Day and co-wrote and directed the 1971 film Kill! , starring his now ex-wife Seberg.
Suffering from depression after Seberg's 1979 suicide, Gary died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on December 2, 1980 in Paris, France though he left a note which said specifically that his death had no relation with Seberg's suicide.
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Quelques idées sur le régime totalitaire:
Les regimes totalitaires avancent ''qu'une société vraiment rationnelle ne peut se permettre le luxe de la liberté individuelle. Les droits de l'homme sont, eux aussi, des espèces d'éléphants. Le droit d'être d'un avis contraire, de penser librement, le droit de résister au pouvoir et de le contester, ce sont la des valeurs qu'on peut très facileent juguler et réprimer au nom du rendement, de l'efficacité, des intérêts supérieurs et du rationalisme intégral''.
''Dans une société vraiment matérialiste et réaliste, poètes, écrivains, artistes, rêveurs et éléphants ne sont plus qu des gêneurs''.
Les regimes totalitaires avancent ''qu'une société vraiment rationnelle ne peut se permettre le luxe de la liberté individuelle. Les droits de l'homme sont, eux aussi, des espèces d'éléphants. Le droit d'être d'un avis contraire, de penser librement, le droit de résister au pouvoir et de le contester, ce sont la des valeurs qu'on peut très facileent juguler et réprimer au nom du rendement, de l'efficacité, des intérêts supérieurs et du rationalisme intégral''.
''Dans une société vraiment matérialiste et réaliste, poètes, écrivains, artistes, rêveurs et éléphants ne sont plus qu des gêneurs''.
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