PORTRAIT – President of the association Lire pour en sortir, which has been working for the reintegration of prisoners through reading for ten years, the lawyer claims a Gaullist and Malrucian heritage.
“I am engaged in a fight for, let’s say, social justice. Perhaps, more precisely: to give men their chance…”André Malraux immediately clarified to General de Gaulle during their first meeting in 1945. Nearly forty years later, it is that of a young man with the words of the French Prime Minister of Cultural Affairs that we must imagine. Alexandre Duval-Stalla was in the second year of high school when he discovered The human condition and reads for the first time: “I don’t like humanity, which is made of the contemplation of suffering.” Does he then guess the influence that this sentence will have on him?
When we meet him in his office on Rue de Castiglione in Paris, where the upper floor of a neoclassical building houses his law firm and his association, we are surprised to see him surrounded by a mountain of books, even higher than his pile of files. On the wall, portraits of Gary, Roth, Vargas Llosa, and Morrison, whose studies he studied, are enthroned…
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