Le train des enfants
by Caldor, Yves
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“Exile is always carried deep within. Sometimes we think we read it in other people’s eyes. It is not always racism or hatred that we can detect there, but an indefinable glow, which seems to whisper to us softly: “No, you are not from here; you look nice like that, and we too want to appear nice, polite; we pretend nothing, but deep down, even if we accept you, you’re not from here.
I don’t define myself as an immigrant; I’m here and all my there. An obsession: ‘double’ roots, mine, those of others; how to speak of ‘that’? How to write about ‘that’? So is it so difficult? Yes ... I am trying; define oneself, constantly redefine oneself; all my roots, my strata; what ploys to not lose any!”
Born in Budapest in 1951, from a Hungarian father and a French mother, Yves CALDOR (Yves Káldor) lived his early childhood – bilingual – in Hungary and, from 1956, after the Soviet intervention against the insurgency in Budapest, in France. As a teenager, following the separation of his parents and the remarriage of his mother, he discovered Belgium (Hainaut, then Brussels where he lived for several years) before moving back to Wallonia; he readily asserts that he feels Belgian, Brussels and Walloon, while keeping his Magyar and French roots alive within him.
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Born in Budapest in 1951, from a Hungarian father and a French mother, Yves CALDOR (Yves Káldor) lived his early childhood – bilingual – in Hungary and, from 1956, after the Soviet intervention against the insurgency in Budapest, in France and then in Belgium where he teaches french language.
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- Publisher M.E.O.
- Publication Date September 2015
- Orginal LanguageFrench
- ISBN/Identifier 9782807000414
- Publication Country or regionBelgium
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 15 EUR
- Pages136
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleFrench
- Original Language AuthorsFrench
- Copyright Year2015
- Dimensions210 x 148 mm
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