Philippe Lançon è un giornalista e romanziere francese il cui lavoro si addentra nella critica letteraria, con una particolare affinità per la letteratura latinoamericana. La sua scrittura esplora spesso temi di trauma e recupero, esemplificati dal suo potente resoconto di esperienze personali con la violenza. Lo stile di Lançon è caratterizzato da una profonda introspezione e da una sensibilità letteraria che invita i lettori a contemplare le complessità della condizione umana. La sua prosa si distingue per la precisione e la risonanza emotiva, affermandolo come una voce significativa nella letteratura francese contemporanea.
The narrative offers a poignant exploration of resilience and recovery following the traumatic experience of surviving the 2015 Charlie Hebdo attack. The author shares his deeply personal journey of healing, grappling with the aftermath of violence while striving to rebuild his life. Through his honest reflections, he delves into themes of loss, identity, and the quest for meaning in the face of adversity.
Paris. January 7, 2015, two terrorists attacked the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. Philippe Lancon, seriously wounded, was among the survivors. This intense life experience upends his relationship to the world, to writing, to reading, to love and to friendship. It took him a year before he could return to writing, a year of frequent reconstructive surgeries, to work through his experiences and their aftermath. As he attempts to reconstruct his life on the page, Lancon rereads Proust, Thomas Mann, Kafka, and others in search of guidance and healing. Disturbance is not an essay on terrorism nor is it a witness's account of Charlie Hebdo, and it's certainly not a feel good book. The attack and what followed make up a small portion of Lancon's narrative, which instead seeks to provide the most honest and intimate reproduction possible of the interior experience of a man who was a victim, who suffered a war wound in a country at peace. Disturbance is a book about transformation, about one man's shifting relationship to time, to truth, and to his own body.
Die Karikaturistin Catherine Meurisse, die seit vielen Jahren für Charlie Hebdo arbeitet, entkommt dem Attentat auf Charlie Hebdo nur, weil sie an diesem Morgen im Januar 2015 für die Redaktionssitzung zu spät dran ist. Viele ihrer Kollegen und Freunde werden bei dem Anschlag aus dem Leben gerissen. Sie selbst sucht seitdem nach einem Umgang mit der Tragödie und einem neuen Zugang zu ihrem Leben. Meurisse sucht in der Schönheit der Natur und der Künste nach anderen Bildern, macht sich nach Italien auf und beginnt langsam, zu ihrer eigenen Leichtigkeit zurückzufinden. Mit „Die Leichtigkeit“ hat Catherine Meurisse ein intensives und sehr persönliches Buch geschaffen, das ihrer Trauer Raum gibt und zugleich eine Ermutigung ist, sich die Schönheit des Lebens zurückzuerobern.
XXI N° 15, ÉTÉ 2011 : France-Algérie : Secrets de famille