
Disturbance
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In this Prix Femina-winning memoir, a writer at the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo recounts surviving the deadly terror attack on their office. On January 7, 2015, two terrorists claiming allegiance to ISIS attack the Paris office of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. The event causes untold pain to the victims and their families, prompts a global solidarity movement, and ignites a fierce debate over press freedoms and the role of satire today. Philippe Lanc¿on, a journalist, author, and a weekly contributor to Charlie Hebdo is gravely wounded in the attack-an experience that upends his relationship to the world. As Lanc¿on attempts to reconstruct his life on the page, he rereads Proust, Thomas Mann, Kafka, and others in search of guidance. It is a year before he can return to writing, a year in which he learns to work through his experiences and their aftermath. Disturbance is not an essay on terrorism nor is it a witness's account of Charlie Hebdo. It is an honest, intimate account of a man seeking to put his life back together after it has been torn apart. "A powerful and deeply civilized memoir." - The New York Times
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Philippe Lançon is a French journalist and writer born in 1963. His memoir, Disturbance, won the 2018 Prix Femina, Prix du Roman News, and Prix Renaudot Jury's Special Prize, and was also named Best Book of the Year by the magazines Lire and Les Inrockuptibles. He is the author of the novels L'Élan (2013) and Les îles (2011).
Steven Rendall has translated more than fifty books from French and German, two of which have won major translation prizes. He is professor emeritus of Romance Languages at the University of Oregon and editor emeritus of Comparative Literature. He currently lives in France.
Content
- Intro
- DISTURBANCE
- CHAPTER 1. TWELFTH NIGHT
- CHAPTER 2. THE FLYING CARPET
- CHAPTER 3. THE MEETING
- CHAPTER 4. THE ATTACK
- CHAPTER 5. AMONG THE DEAD
- CHAPTER 6. THE AWAKENING
- CHAPTER 7. THE GRAMMAR OF THE HOSPITAL ROOM
- CHAPTER 8. POOR LUDO
- CHAPTER 9. THE WORLD BELOW
- CHAPTER 10. THE ANEMONE
- CHAPTER 11. THE IMPERFECT FAIRY
- CHAPTER 12. THE PREPARATION
- CHAPTER 13. STATIC CALENDAR
- CHAPTER 14. THE COOKIE BOX
- CHAPTER 15. THE FLAP
- CHAPTER 16. A DOMESTIC DISPUTE
- CHAPTER 17. THE ART OF THE FUGUE
- CHAPTER 18. MONSIEUR TARBES
- CHAPTER 19. THE PATIENT'S DISTURBANCE
- CHAPTER 20. RETURNS
- EPILOGUE
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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