And you could see all my doubts, questions. And so I felt it was an interesting problem and I decided to share all my thoughts about it. ''To be faithful to character, to facts not to make things up and to resist the temptation to make things up. What he wanted was to write a ''true'' story but discovered it was complicated. It is not only the tone of HHhH - the title comes from the saying in Nazi circles that Himmler's brain was called Heydrich - and the way in which Binet shares his own troubles with the reader that are playful, but also the way he includes characters such as his various girlfriends. But he is happy to talk about the work that obsessed him for more than 10 years. '''Allo,'' he barks, and it's obvious I have woken him. And - surprisingly, perhaps - it is playful.īut Binet doesn't sound very playful when he picks up the phone in his Paris apartment. It is a serious book that considers questions of fidelity in fiction and historical accuracy, of literary theory, of moral responsibility in times of war.
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