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Le livre de Kells
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The Book of Kells is Sorj Chalandon's twelfth novel, drawing on his personal experience to recount an episode from his life. At 17, after leaving high school, Lyon, and his family, he arrives in Paris where, for almost a year, he experiences poverty, homelessness, cold, and hunger. Having fled a racist and anti-Semitic father, he re-enters life on the opposite sidewalk from that of this Minotaur, under the name Kells, a reference to a 9th-century Irish Gospel book. Committed men and women will one day extend a fraternal hand to him, taking him off the streets and welcoming him, loving him, educating him, and reconciling him with humanity. With them, he discovers a political commitment made up of solidarity, armed struggles, and hopes, but also of missteps and blindness. Until the brutal death of one of these activists, Pierre Overney, pushes the Left..." Proletarian to the point of dissolving. Some will never recover, others will seek a different outcome to their struggle. This was the case for the author, who joined "Libération" in September 1973. Kells' book is a personal adventure, but also the story of an engaged youth and a violent era. Sorj Chalandon changed surnames, some facts, sometimes jostled an overly personal temporality, to make it a novel. The real truth, protected by an appropriate fiction
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