26 nov. 2012

Interview with LE NOUVEL OBSERVATEUR translated


INTERVIEW WITH LE NOUVEL OBSERVATEUR
ABOUT CHAOS BRÛLANT  ( BURNING  CHAOS )
Translated by Robert G. Margolis
  
Le Nouvel Observateur: How do you feel after a year deep inside the head of Dominque Strauss-Kahn? 

Stéphane Zagdanski:  I will not keep from you that 2011 was almost as painful for me as it was for Dominque Strauss-Kahn.  As if the title of my novel had decided to turn my existence into a burning chaos.  To give you only one example, an enormous fire completely consumed a storage facility in Gagny, in which I had some furniture and, especially, irreplaceable archives.  And this is not the worst of what happened to me !  Proof, if such is needed, that certain books magnetize the world around their author, for better as well as for worse.