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DISTURBANCE : Surviving Charlie Heboo

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Publication details: London Europa Editions 2019/01/01Edition: 1Description: 473ISBN:
  • 9781787701892
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.325092 LAN/DI
Contents:
Twelfth night -- The flying carpet -- The meeting -- The attack -- Among the dead -- The awakening -- The grammar of the hospital room -- Poor Ludo -- The world below -- The anemone -- The imperfect fairy -- The preparation -- Static calendar -- The cookie box -- The flap -- A domestic dispute -- The art of the fugue -- Monsieur Tarbes -- The patient's disturbance -- Returns.
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Lending Lending Ernakulam Public Library General Stacks Non-fiction 363.325092 LAN/DI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available E196048

A moving and intimate account of survival, resilience, and reconstruction.

A moving and intimate account of survival, resilience, and reconstruction.

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.

Twelfth night --
The flying carpet --
The meeting --
The attack --
Among the dead --
The awakening --
The grammar of the hospital room --
Poor Ludo --
The world below --
The anemone --
The imperfect fairy --
The preparation --
Static calendar --
The cookie box --
The flap --
A domestic dispute --
The art of the fugue --
Monsieur Tarbes --
The patient's disturbance --
Returns.

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