A moving and intimate account of survival, resilience, and
reconstruction. Paris. January 7, 2015, two terrorists attacked the
satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. Philippe Lancon, seriously wounded,
was among the survivors. This intense life experience upends his
relationship to the world, to writing, to reading, to love and to
friendship. It took him a year before he could return to writing, a
year of frequent reconstructive surgeries, to work through his
experiences and their aftermath. As he attempts to reconstruct his
life on the page, Lancon rereads Proust, Thomas Mann, Kafka, and
others in search of guidance and healing. Disturbance is not an
essay on terrorism nor is it a witness's account of Charlie Hebdo,
and it's certainly not a "feel good book." The attack and what
followed make up a small portion of Lancon's narrative, which
instead seeks to provide the most honest and intimate reproduction
possible of the interior experience of a man who was a victim, who
suffered a "war wound" in a country "at peace." Disturbance is a
book about transformation, about one man's shifting relationship to
time, to truth, and to his own body.
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