Fiction can help promote empathy and counter historical forgetfulness. Anne Berest hopes that her novel “The Postcard,” about her family’s experiences during the Second World War, will be a “link between generations.”
,” which leads him to reconstruct the lost worlds of his ancestors, the Ephrussi family, in prewar Jewish Paris and Vienna, Lélia’s postcard sets Anne on a quest through history . In the novel, she and her mother hunt through a French village for traces of its wartime past. Anne consults with the Duluc Detective Agency and a handwriting expert named Jésus, and confronts family tensions, all while questioning the meaning of Jewishness in her secular, assimilated life.
“As I was writing, I had the feeling that I was living in all these different periods at once,” Berest said. “It was as if I had entered into a different relationship with time.” The French love literary scandals, and the 2021 Goncourt Prize was no exception. “The Postcard” was among the nominees for the prize, as was “,” a début novel by the philosopher François Noudelmann. Like “The Postcard,” it’s a story of the Holocaust and Jewish exiles in France, based on the author’s family history.
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