Overview
Suddenly, with an incredible intensity, the memory of two or three years from when I was about twenty years old has come back to me. It is so far away, so old
When I turned twenty, in 1967, I was sent by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to work in Djem a-Saharidj, a small village of the Kabyle region of Algeria. Already then I felt heavy with the weight of too many memories. I was trying to understand who I was, what I was taking part in. I had to make a choice: between my "vocation," the wish, that I had since childhood, to become a priest, or another life. But we cannot fathom our own destiny. We only make sense of things in retrospect, long after they have happened. This is why I will talk about Jacques Vallot, and the role he played, mysteriously, obscurely, in shaping the life I was to live.
Alain R mond is a writer and a journalist, writing in particular for La Croix and Marianne.
He has amongst others published Chaque jour est un adieu, Un jeune homme est pass , and Comme une chanson dans la nuit (Seuil) followed by Les romans n'int ressent pas les voleurs (Stock) in 2007.
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- ISBN-13: 9782234060630
- ISBN-10: 223406063X
- Publisher: Stock
- Publish Date: April 2009
- Dimensions: 7 x 5 x 0.26 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.25 pounds
- Page Count: 122
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