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What if hitler had survived?:
When Romain Puértolas writes, he goes to 1000 % and in four or five weeks, hop, everything is folded. However, He has a complete novel at the key! Meanwhile, “On the other hand. Consequently, it is always necessary that the subject fascinates me and that I take a lot of pleasure in working there, whether it is almost a game for me,” explains the author that we joined at home in Malaga, in Spain.
The author Roman Ports. Consequently, PHOTO COURTOISIE. Moreover, ROBERTO FRANKENBERG
From one what if hitler had survived? book to another, Romain Puértolas has thus accustomed us to completely wacky stories that never fail to make us smile. Moreover, And with My life without mustachehis youngest, he put the package starting from a very real fact. Therefore, In 2015, he received a message in which a very old lady claimed to have been the cook of Adolf Hitler. Consequently, Okay, why not. Therefore, Except that it would have gone from 1945 to 1963, in Argentina. Moreover, Yes. Nevertheless, there is something to blin because in all history manuals, we can read that the awful man committed suicide in his Berlin bunker on April 30, 1945 alongside Eva Braun.
“There are people who just can’t imagine that an individual as exceptional as Hitler has ended his life with a ball in the head. However, ” said Romain Puértolas. Consequently, So. For example, as usual, the human being invents stuff what if hitler had survived? and fantasy: the Führer must have been fleeing in Argentina like so many other Nazis, and he had to start his life! Even if I did not believe it for a second from the start. it is in this kind of myth that I rushed while trying to be as objective as possible. There are business like that is always relevant! »»
In the footsteps of Hitler
Having already been a police captain in France, Puértolas has opened the investigation. To start. he learns that in San Carlos de Bariloche, a city in northern Patagonia, there is indeed a tourist “Nazi Tour”, with its guides, suspicious houses and disturbing stories. He then decides to go there to check for himself. “All I write in this book is true, I swear on the head of Adolf Hitler!” “He says mid-sir, half-noh.
On site, testimonies abound. Everyone knows someone who crossed the what if hitler had survived? former German dictator or a man who looked like him. Amalia Sánchez-Weiss. the old lady of the message, also very long to say on the subject, because the nice gentleman for whom she prepared good little dishes for almost 20 years in the kitchens of the Inalco domain was undoubtedly Hitler. Did he call herself Herr Bruno Kirchner? Normal, he sought to live incognito. Was he vegetarian? Yes, but he also liked to eat a beautiful trout from time to time.
Meanwhile, we also enjoy each other. Because Romain Puértolas has put us a tasty story in which the boundaries between likelihood. improbability fading at high speed!
Laughing
As in each of his books, humor is omnipresent. A good thing since here, it has made it possible to transform a potentially explosive subject into a jubilant novel. “I’m like that,” he said. Humor is a gene that we naturally have what if hitler had survived? among Puértolas. So when I realize myself, I brake while removing certain jokes. After there is my wife who reads me. who removes half of my jokes, then there is my editor who passes and who removes half of my jokes. But even with all that, he will still stay too much! »»
And that’s good, because it is precisely these excesses that make the charm of his stories, until the Grand Final. My life without mustache ends in fact with one of these famous “funny twists” of which the author has. the secret. “I thought this spectacular end was not going to pass, but my editor laughed,” he adds. And that’s the goal: let people laugh! »»
So just to find out what he is going back. here is a novel that deserves to accompany us on vacation!
My life without mustache, from Romain Portolas, to the Albin Michel Editions, 304 pages. Photo provided by Albin Michel editions
What if hitler had survived?
Further reading: Summer readings … Aurélien Bellanger – This bookstore of Vernon again awarded – Roubaix: free readings workshops in parks this summer – The books that are sold best right now at the procure – Le Quotidien – Arab literary prize “Sheikh Zayed Book Award”: opening of candidates.
