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Jean-Christophe Rufin still uses his life to feed his novels. His new book, The Seven Weddings of Edgar and Ludmilla , is no exception. Over 384 pages, the reader follows a story of love and separation, between a charming adventurer and an opera singer. The writer mentions this novel by Anne Roumanoff on Tuesday.
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"Separation can be part of a love story"
"It's a true story at first," says Jean-Christophe Rufin, "I based on the book of Dominique Lapierre, who had, before 30 years, crossed the USSR: I always imagined a little in this trip". The romance of Edgar and Ludmilla is indeed written throughout the world, through Russia, Morocco or South Africa. "The separation can be part of a love story," says the writer, "their story is even stronger when they are separated," he says.
"I go through the detour of fiction"
Divorced four times and married three times to the same woman, Jean-Christophe Rufin was inspired by his personal history to write that of Edgar and Ludmilla. "I'm not able to talk about my story directly, out of modesty, so I go through the detour of fiction," says the author of Red Brazil . Like Edgar who snatches Ludmilla to a country at war, Jean-Christophe Rufin also lived this episode. "You save someone, but they are not so good bases to start a relationship, it introduces an inequality and after a while, the relationship breaks, or it rebalances," says the writer.