l'oubl est la ruse du diable / FORGIVEN IS THE TRICK OF THE DEVIL
My typewriter was sitting on a crate. I sat on the floor, legs apart, squeezing the box between my thighs. In the cone of light diffused by the green opaline lampshade, I could see only the keyboard, my fingers and those sentences which, aligned, regular, seemed to me dictated by a voice that was born in my chest and filled my mouth a pungent saliva.
These words, glued to each other, would become essays, books. I knew it, I wanted it, that was my real destiny.
My "first life" was just an appearance. One day, I would not have to give the change, to learn to operate a milling machine, to adjust a dovetail, to be taunted by a professor who accused me of being only a "good for nothing", a "flemmard", a "pretentious" who with his great airs was not even able to file by holding his tool at forty-five degrees.
I will be free. "
For the first time, the famous historian delivers himself through an exceptional autobiography. It reads like a novel, a novel of initiation.
A book of history, testimony of a destiny, Max Gallo reveals here his life, his dramas and this conviction that "Do not die and go to hell only those we do not remember anymore. Forgetting is the trick of the devil . "
