I read the English translation from Châteaureynaud’s collection, A Life on Paper
(2010). The story tells of a man who returns to occupied France during World War II on the
morning that his mother was killed by an errant bomb. I enjoyed the writing, but was
unsatisfied with the ending.
You’re Jean-Jacques Manoir, aren’t you? Right? You don’t know me, but I know all
about you.
DEBUT
[ex=bare]“Le gouffre des années” | The gulf of years[/ex], in Héros blessé au
bras: Nouvelles (Grasset, 1987).
VARIANTS
Debut. [ex=bare]“Le gouffre des années” | The gulf of years[/ex], in Héros blessé au bras: Nouvelles (Grasset, 1987).
You’re Jean-Jacques Manoir, aren’t you? Right? You don’t know me, but I know all
about you.
1 French variant