Later, You Will Understand
Publisher
:
Grasset
Parution date
:
2009
EAN
:
9782246653929
Number of pages
:
401
Description
Plus tard, tu comprendras is so rich and subtle in its construction that anything I might say about it can only impoverish it. . . . Love is the source and the framework of this beautiful book.
—Le Monde
***Now a feature film directed by Amos Gitai and starring Jeanne Moreau***
Plus tard, tu comprendras tells the story of a son who seeks to understand how his Catholic father and Jewish mother survived the Occupation and why, after World War II, they refused to talk about his family’s experience of the Holocaust.
After the death of his mother, a Russian Jew married to a French Catholic, the narrator finds himself back in the apartment where he once lived with his family. As he sorts through his parents’ furniture, paintings, personal objects, and books, he finds a few photos and letters that bring back memories and help him piece back together his family’s wartime stories.
Obsessively, he searches for evidence of what happened to his maternal grandparents, the Gornicks, and the possible involvement of his paternal Catholic relatives in their fate. He wonders how his father was able to save his Jewish wife and daughter and whether he collaborated willingly with the Vichy regime. His mother always hid behind a wall of silence about this period, so he can only rely on scattered fragments of her life story to find answers.
This new edition of the text, originally published in 2005, contains 100 pages of updated materials in a section entitled Now I Know. In it, the author recounts the filming of his book and concludes with a heartrending account of a journey to Auschwitz with his own wife and children.
Author
Jérôme Clément : Born in Paris in 1945, Jérôme Clement has been president of the Franco-German cultural television channel Arte since it was launched in 1991. He has published several books, including Un homme en quête de vertu (Grasset, 1992), La Culture expliquée à ma fille (Le Seuil, 2000), and Les Femmes et l’amour (Stock, 2002). Plus tard, tu comprendras, published in 2005, sold more than 40,000 copies in France.
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