This is an inconspicuous event, which, by the way, others may have registered and immediately forgot, but noticed that the author Erve Le Telier allowed him to plunge into history, the traces of which were blurred after more than eighty years. Le Tilanier, whose last novel “Anomaly” was translated into 44 languages, goes on a trip to the Auvern-Rro-Alpes region in his new book “Name on the Wall”, where he is looking for, and also finds a country house in which he wants to settle.
The name is scratched on raw plaster, and its weeded capital letters show that it has been there for a long time: Andre Chaiks. There is a monument from the house in just a few meters: the inscription: “Entered to France. In honor of the sons of Mongu. ” Among them is also the name “Andre Shayks”, so he was a man of Makis, French and Belgian partisans, who hid in forests and mountains in the Second World War. He became old for twenty years. This is all that Le Teliei knows about the unknown, name on the stone.
Le Tellier has been a member of the group of the authors of Oulipo since 1992, a kind of seminar for potential literature, which belonged to Georges Pop and Italo Calvino. The name, scratched into the wall, does not come out of his head. He begins to reflect on his motives until he finally becomes a “need” to talk about Andre Hyce, precisely because this young man is quite interesting for the historian, because nothing will be found in the archives. The testimony of his personality is scarce, the name, date of birth and the date of death and the fact that he was a soldier of the forces of Franasis de L’Iterier. But it was precisely that the historian put on the charm of Le TV Tliire.
Leaflet, several photos and cigarette tip
The author begins with the death of Andre Shais, and not from his birth, he surrounds the circumstances of death, a short battle with the Nazis, an ambush, during which Andre Chaiks and other Makisardes are shot dead. Le Tellier receives a small cardboard box with a postcard from the organizers of the exhibition about the resistance in the drum. This is all that remains of Andre Shais, but these personal objects allow him to look at him. Le Torniere feels like a “grave manufacturer” when it opens the box. Among other things, he contains an identity card, an employment certificate, a newspaper’s tear from the 1949 sorrow ceremony, two letters to his parents, a leaflet, several contact deductions from the photos and the tip of a cigarette.
Le Tornier spreads his find in front of us, meticulous, reserved, almost devout. Now he knows what Andre looks like, who, relying on a tree, radiates “self -esteem”, with an open look, a sports figure and the face of an actor, which resembles the author of Jean Gabin or Berte Lancester. Le TVlier continues to feel that he is going to the seminar in which Andre worked, he visits the church, a bakery, where he must have passed Andre every day, and he knows how to create a carefree life of a young man.
Le pllier slowly increases from concrete to the general, from a small part to the overall picture, without inductive thinking, getting a rule from it. For example, he considers how Andre found resistance in the confusion, because Le TVlier describes him as a “star nebel”, which only slowly finds his center, for a common denominator against “Boche”, German invaders. But what does this mean that the heritage of Andres is the leaflet of Comité National of Thecrivain, which also included Paul Eluire and Jean-Paul Sartre?
The soundtrack of their existence
The Germans occupied Paris, and Le TVlier tried to describe the atmosphere when Andre could not even think about joining resistance. The author represents how Andre and Simon, the woman he loves, and whom he wants to marry, laugh, sing, dance and go to the cinema. He studied “what could be the soundtrack of their existence”, what they could look at in the cinema, on the radio and the gramophone. Maybe Aytit Piaf and “La Tour Eiffel Est Toujows Là”, which she sang in moulins -rules? At that time, the closure of restaurants, the theater, the musical -Zalov and brothels would not interrogate the Germans, because Paris should remain a “place of relaxation”.
Many actors and directors remained in Paris. They participate in the golden era of the French film because competing American productions disappear from the screens, even if for Jews in this area, which Billy Wilder once asked if he was an optimist or pessimist: “Pessimist. Pessimists are in Hollywood, the optimists were in Auschwitz. ” Le TVlier wanders into the general, in the great whole, he reflects how the Germans’ readiness can follow, Hitler, and how French willingness to cooperate with the Germans, although no one was forced to do this in a concentration camp or trace Jews to transfer them to German management.
He is included in the book of Christopher Browning “Ordinary People” and about his conclusion that group coercion and submission under the rule “produce unscrupulous killers on the meeting line”, and that this idea also opened “locks of barbarism” for Poland, Lithuanian, Ukrainian and others.
Le TVlier, in the visible one, was only removed from Andre, because Andre was clearly insensitive to all the hatred that these people sowed. As Hannah Arendt once wrote, he refused to participate in the murder, “because he did not want to live with the killer – with himself.” Le Tilanier built Andre a small filigree monument, he investigated the era for him “in a great heart and courage with egoism and low costumes as rare.” He succeeded in a magnificent book in which you want to lose yourself for a long time.
