Alain Sobel - Grósz Mózes Párizsban- Egy emigráns diary 1914-1946

How can we write about the lives of all those for whom there are no archival materials? How could we trace the path of those men and women who kept going forward and didn't want to leave any traces? How do we tell stories whose characters could never look back because what they were running from was so terrible. Following the long-forgotten tradition of humanist physicians, Sobel gives us a biography; if he deems it necessary, he reconstructs dialogues, imagines ordinary life scenes, tragic, strange, funny ones. In The Fragments there is complete freedom, not in terms of the truth of the facts - they are all true - but in the way of narration. This is a free book, Sobel is never in debt, he is like his hero, he just keeps going. He lives and manages to draw us into the narrative of that life, which begins in the third person and ends in the words of his protagonist in the first person. A book of life, I said very firmly, Sobel always looks forward, to the future, and his writing also points to that.
Philippe Artieres