Stone, half a century of affection and wars | EUROtoday

In October 1973, the Kippur War broke out, and Raphaël, narrator and alterhero of Assouline, left France, the place he campaigned for a “Judaism of the muscle”, To help Israel. Except that the voluntary dedicated dedicated to dam is present in a misplaced agency, in a “Magic mountain without overhanging the world”, he wrote, to handle silly turkeys and quarrelsome. He won’t meet Leonard Cohen (his idol, who then sings clandestine for the troopers of Tsahal) on the entrance, however, on the bend of a recreation of chess, Esther, Jewish of Moroccan origin like him, soldier liable for saying to households the demise of their liked one. Half a century later, the day after October 7, 2023-this “Release of wild beasts”this “Night of crystal in broad daylight”he writes-, Raphaël returns to Israel, the place he finds the ravage, a “Morally broken country” And, once more on the flip of a recreation of chess … Esther.

Both intimate archeology and reflection on the tragic of historical past, this story is above all a textual content of affection, and even a gesture of affection. Powerful and modest, positioned on paper like a hand on the shoulder, he has braveness, a giant however clever coronary heart: he bursts the soul and the pages §