ANNE ROUMANOFF, THAT'S GOOD
"No press card" claimed, but a step taken as "gonzo political journalism". In his books Rabbits and Wonders (2016) and Divine Comedy (2017), Gaël Tchakaloff has always liked to stage himself, provoking either anger or the admiration of his subjects or colleagues. In Vacarme , she leaves the sphere of journalism to engage in a much more intimate exercise, the autobiographical novel, as she told Anne Roumanoff on Monday.
"Journalism, (...) it's a drug"
"Little by little, I realized that Gaël Tchakaloff ( his pseudonym, ed ) took more space than Lucile Buffet ( his real name, ed )," says Gael Tchakaloff. A statement she made a year ago, when she began writing her book. "My children, the man I loved, said to me, 'We do not know who you are,'" she recalls. "I think there was such an exacerbated personality that they never knew if they were with Gaël Tchakaloff or Lucile Buffet."
And this duality, the journalist wanted to dig in his novel. A first for her, rather accustomed to "being interested in the man behind the politician". This time, it is itself that Gael Tchakaloff has studied. An exercise that pleased him. "I would like to continue in literature," she says, "but stop journalism, I'm not sure because it's a drug."