Focus on non-fiction: Florence Aubenas, beyond the news
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Writer Florence Aubenas in studio at RFI (March 2021).
© Catherine Fruchon-Toussaint / RFI
By: Catherine Fruchon-Toussaint
31 min
Florence Aubenas is a Senior Reporter for Le Monde, after having been for Liberation, then Le Nouvel Observateur.
An essayist, she has published in particular "
La Méprise: l'
Olivier
" (Seuil, 2005), "
Grand Reporter
" (Bayard, 2009), "
Le Quai de Ouistreham
" (L'Olivier, 2010), Jean Amila prize -Meckert 2010, Joseph-Kessel Prize 2010, the Crystal Globe 2011, and met with immense success.
His new book "
L'inconnu de la poste
", published by Editions de l'Olivier, looks back on the crime of a woman of which the actor Gerald Thomassin was suspected.
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The unknown of the Post office © L'Olivier
“The first time I heard about Thomassin, it was through a casting director with whom he had worked when he was just starting out as an actor. She had shown me some of the letters he had sent her from prison. When he was released, I went to see him. A motionless backpacker, Thomassin does not like to move outside his bases. You have to move. I told him that I was not writing his biography, but a book on the murder of a woman in a mountain village, a case in which he was involved. My job was to meet him, him and anyone else who would agree to see me. »
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The village is Montreal-la-Cluse.
The victim is Catherine Burgod, killed by twenty-eight stab wounds in the post office where she worked.
This book is therefore the story of a crime.
It took Florence Aubenas seven years to piece together all of the episodes - all but one.
The result is startling.
Beyond the news item and the police investigation,
L'Inconnu de la poste
is the portrait of a France that one would be wrong to call ordinary.
Because if chance seems to rule the life of the protagonists of this story, Florence Aubenas offers each of them the dignity of a destiny.
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of the Olivier editions
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