Less than ten years after the tragedy, author Laurent Gaudé returns to this disastrous evening of Friday, November 13, 2015. A personal, moving account of this day which marked a before and an after for everyone. He published a text, Terrasses, with Acte-Sud editions.
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In his book Terrasses, the writer Laurent Gaudé, 52, looks back on the attacks of November 13, 2015, “I mixed documentation and fiction”. The author relied on the work of journalists, historians, politicians, “the anguish of the characters in the book is being plunged into the unknown”. Words to express the unspeakable.
This is one of those moments when we are in collective movements. Holding the hand of someone you don't know. It's beautiful, it's magical. It's a return to humanity.
Laurent Gaudé, writer
Terraces is not a journalistic investigation. Not a documentary either. A short book in which we find the victims, the firefighters, the police, the nurses, with one question: the impossible forgetting? “There is this risk of forgetting that weighs on it. It must not remain just one date. Today, we know the end. There is no long-term view. That is one of those moments when we are in collective movements. Holding the hand of someone we don't know is beautiful, it's magical..
The attacks of Friday November 13 were claimed by the Islamic State terrorist organization. Shooting, suicide attack in the evening in Paris. It was nine years ago. Laurent Gaudé came to Lorraine several times. At the Théâtre du peuple, Maurice Pottecher in Bussang (Vosges), he presented his play “Caillasses”.
Laurent Gaudé publishes Terraces – or Our long kiss so long delayed – at Actes Sud.
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