“When the Earth was flat” by Jean-Claude Grumberg, the old man and the mother – Libération

Suzanne Grumberg, born Suzanne Katz in Paris in 1907, is “the heroine of this story”, When the Earth was flatwhere his son, Jean-Claude Grumberg, brings together memories and some family legends, trying to talk about the First World War rather than the Second and the Shoah. Finally, he specifies that we did not call “That” the Shoah when he wrote and performed the play in 1979 l’Atelierand he adds: “Myself, in truth, I try not to talk too much about that anymore and I spend my remaining time writing stories because it is true that good stories…”

The author of the Most Valuable Goodsco-writer of the animated film that Michel Hazanavicius made from it, once again uses the tale to accompany his mother as a little girl, around 1916 or 1917, sent with her brothers and her mother to “the other end of Europe”, in Brody, Galicia. It was the hometown of his parents, now Ukrainian after having been Polish. The father stayed to work in the concentration camp (“yes yes, I say a French concentration camp. No no,