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Galadio
Galadio [Broch_] by Didier Daeninckx
140 pages, Paperback
First published April 14, 2010
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Didier Daeninckx
220 books35 followersDidier Daeninckx nació en 1949 en Saint-Denis. Tras trabajar como periodista en varias publicaciones locales y provinciales, en 1983 publicó «Meurtres pour mémoire», primera investigación del inspector Cadin. A ésta le siguieron numerosas novelas negras, entre las cuales se encuentran «La mort n’oublie personne», «Lumière noire» y «Mort au premier tour». Escritor comprometido, Didier Daeninckx está considerado un maestro del género en Francia.
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February 29, 2020
Je... je viens de terminer ce livre, mais je ne trouve pas les mots, je n'arrive pas à faire une phrase, malgré que ce ne soit pas un coup de cœur !
Faut savoir que je ne m'attendais pas du tout à cette histoire...
Au début, je ne pensais pas à autant aimer, et à donner un 3,5 ou bien 3/5 à cette lecture, mais les derniers chapitres m'ont fait changer d'avis...
Le dernier chapitre est bouleversant et manque de nous faire verser une larme... 🥺
Je suis émue de cette fin, qui... comment dire me plaît sans me plaire, car, pourquoi ? Elle est bien dans un sens, mais nous ne sommes point sûr de l'événement qui va se passer...
Juste, c'est une histoire poignante que j'ai apprécié lire surtout la relation entre Galaido et Deborah 🥺❤ et la fin 💔🥺 !
Je donne à cette histoire un ⭐⭐⭐⭐,5/5, car elle le mérite !
Faut savoir que je ne m'attendais pas du tout à cette histoire...
Au début, je ne pensais pas à autant aimer, et à donner un 3,5 ou bien 3/5 à cette lecture, mais les derniers chapitres m'ont fait changer d'avis...
Le dernier chapitre est bouleversant et manque de nous faire verser une larme... 🥺
Je suis émue de cette fin, qui... comment dire me plaît sans me plaire, car, pourquoi ? Elle est bien dans un sens, mais nous ne sommes point sûr de l'événement qui va se passer...
Juste, c'est une histoire poignante que j'ai apprécié lire surtout la relation entre Galaido et Deborah 🥺❤ et la fin 💔🥺 !
Je donne à cette histoire un ⭐⭐⭐⭐,5/5, car elle le mérite !
September 5, 2017
Tried to enjoy but just couldn't.
September 4, 2025
A short novel by Daeninckx, who often writes about those whom history has forgotten. Galadio is the son of a tirailleur sénégalais, (black French soldier) sent in 1921 to occupy the industrial Rhine-Ruhr territory in order to enforce payment of war reparations, and a German mother.
He lives an ordinary life until Hitler’s rise to power; he is a good pupil at school, plays football, swims competitively, and his best friend is Deborah Baschinger, daughter of a neighbour.
Gradually he is excluded- banned from the football team, then the swimming pool. His main persecutor is his former football coach, Dieter, now a member of the SA, who warns him that people like him are next on the list.
The scene of the roundup of any domestic animal belonging to a Jewish family is shocking, even though we know it’s only the prologue...
Galadio (usually called Ulrich, except by Deborah) eventually finds himself recruited to be an extra in the vast cinema studios of Babelsberg, which still exist, but at that time turning out such nasties as “Jud Süss”, and Leni Riefenstahl’s artistically beautiful but morally poisonous “Triumph des Willens”.
At a time when Germany seeks to glorify its own colonial history and aspersions- particularly in contrast with the UK, black folk who adoretgey Germany are needed to perpetuate this myth. (Not so different from “Gone with the Wind” truth be told!)
Galadio’s subsequent adventures illuminate forgotten aspects of that dreadful war which continues to cast its shadow over Europe
Without underestimating the hideous suffering and devastating massacre of Jews, it is important to remember that they were not Hitler’s only targets - next time it could be you “they” come for first.
He lives an ordinary life until Hitler’s rise to power; he is a good pupil at school, plays football, swims competitively, and his best friend is Deborah Baschinger, daughter of a neighbour.
Gradually he is excluded- banned from the football team, then the swimming pool. His main persecutor is his former football coach, Dieter, now a member of the SA, who warns him that people like him are next on the list.
The scene of the roundup of any domestic animal belonging to a Jewish family is shocking, even though we know it’s only the prologue...
Galadio (usually called Ulrich, except by Deborah) eventually finds himself recruited to be an extra in the vast cinema studios of Babelsberg, which still exist, but at that time turning out such nasties as “Jud Süss”, and Leni Riefenstahl’s artistically beautiful but morally poisonous “Triumph des Willens”.
At a time when Germany seeks to glorify its own colonial history and aspersions- particularly in contrast with the UK, black folk who adoretgey Germany are needed to perpetuate this myth. (Not so different from “Gone with the Wind” truth be told!)
Galadio’s subsequent adventures illuminate forgotten aspects of that dreadful war which continues to cast its shadow over Europe
Without underestimating the hideous suffering and devastating massacre of Jews, it is important to remember that they were not Hitler’s only targets - next time it could be you “they” come for first.
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June 5, 2010
Interesting for bits of history, places and people mentioned, and some of it happens on Dakar-Bamoko railway which was the subject of the last book I read - "Les Bouts De Bois De Dieu".
July 16, 2015
Un livre intéressant, qui éclaire une histoire peu connue, celle des métis de l'Allemagne nazie. Très intriguante la première partie; moins convaincante la suite, mais également émouvante.
November 18, 2011
Original mais ce n'est pas son meilleur.
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