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Editor's Note: Pierre Assouline is a novelist, journalist, and one of the world's most distinguished biographers. His biographies on figures including Georges Simenon, Herge (the creator of Tin-tin), Gaston Gallimard, Cartier-Bresson, and others have been translated into multiple languages. Assouline is currently a literary critic of the French newspaper Le Monde. His blog, "The Republic of Books," appears on Le Monde's website daily. Assouline has been kind enough to give South Central Review a chapter of his biographical work, entitled Rosebud: Eclats de biographies* for publication in our pages. The chapter deals with the life of France's greatest Resistance hero, tortured and killed by the Nazi torturer, Klaus Barbie, who himself was tried and convicted of crimes against humanity in France in 1 987, after having been arrested in hiding in South America. A "rosebud," according to Assouline, is a "little nothing that betrays us and reveals us to others." We are grateful to Professor Ruth Larson of Texas A&M University for her excellent translation of Assouline's essay. |
