Madrak: Persian 1401

With Le Grand Cahier we were in a country at war where two children, twins, were learning to survive by using all the resources of evil and cruelty. Then the twins separated, one of them crossing the border, leaving the other in his country pacified but dominated by his authoritarian regime. Alone, now deprived of a part of himself, Lucas, the one who remained, seems to want to devote himself to good. He takes in Yasmine and adopts her son, Mathias, takes his pittance to the village priest, tries to console Clara whose husband was hanged for 'treason', and listens attentively to the confession of Victor, the bookseller who dreams of writing a book ...What if it was worse? Isn't the characteristic of a totalitarian system that it fundamentally perverts any impulse of generosity? What Claus will discover, the exiled twin returning to the scene of his first crimes, will be even more terrible: that there is no generosity without crime, and that there are always two of us, even when we are alone. Beyond the fable, the author continues his merciless exploration of memory so long divided, like Europe and gives us a beautiful, desperate meditation on literature.