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L'ami lointain

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Le narrateur, Étienne, est celui qui reste à la propriété familiale, laissant la "brillante carrière" à son frère Olivier. Celui qui va de soi et dont le bagage pèse le poids de tout ce qu'il n'a pas fait : il ne s'est pas marié et n'a pas eu d'enfants, il n'a pas voyagé, il n'a pas écrit. C'est pourtant à ce spectateur de passage encore adolescent qu'un jour d'été, sur une plage de la Conche, s'attache le jeune Stefan Stein. Il est alors l'ami imprévu : plongé dès son enfance au coeur des tempêtes, passant de l'Allemagne nazie à l'Amérique du Sud, des pogromes de l'Holocauste aux convulsions politiques du "Nouveau Monde", il est tout ce que n'est pas Étienne. Il restera pourtant, à jamais, malgré la distance et le temps, l'ami lointain. Quand le cauchemar de l'Histoire finalement l'engloutira, Étienne restera seul, innocent, coupable de survivre.

184 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1987

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Claude Roy

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Claude Roy, writer: born Paris 28 August 1915; twice married, secondly to Loleh Bellon (one son); died Paris 13 December 1997.
The son of the artiste-peintre Felicien Roy, Claude Roy was born with an eye for the unusual and colourful, and an ear for words so acute, he always seemed like a child learning to speak and read.

Several of his best known books are rhymes, poems and absurd tales for the young of all ages, illustrated by well-known artists, among whom he had many friends, including Picasso, Balthus, Zao Wou Ki and Zoran Music. Roy's last work was a book on his friend, Balthus (1996). His most enchanting children's books, two volumes of Enfantasques (1974 and 1978) are illustrated by his own witty collages. He wrote a delightful book about the art of painting, inspired by memories of watching his father at work, in L'Amour de la peinture (1955).

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