INTERVIEW – The award-winning novelist publishes Bastard’s Child, the story of his mythomaniac father.
He brought his blue pouch, the one in which his father’s file from World War II is in it. This violent and mythomaniac father that Sorj Chalandon has so often tried to define in his novels. In Fathers profession, the author had used his tears to tell the story of the one who sometimes passed for a judo teacher, sometimes for a pastor, a parachutist and a spy. In his latest novel, Bastard’s Child, the novelist finally sheds light on this father, this “Junk SS, second-hand patriot, resistance in composition”, as he is due to cover the trial of Nazi Klaus Barbie – a series of reports that won him the Albert Londres Prize. He explains how he wrote this “true novel” based on a missed appointment.
LE FIGARO. – This is not the first time that you have written a novel about your father. How was this one born?
Sorj CHALANDON. – Before this one, I wrote two books about the father. Always with the same question: “Who were you?” My father
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