Éliette Abécassis

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Éliette Abécassis

Éliette Abécassis (born January 27, 1969 in Strasbourg ) is a French writer .

Life

Éliette Abécassis, born in Strasbourg, comes from a Sephardic family of Moroccan origin. She attended the école normal supérieure and studied philosophy . She teaches in Caen . Her father Armand Abécassis is a renowned philosophy professor and historian of Jewish intellectual history. Éliette is a self-practicing Jew, and her life is shaped by a Jewish religion or culture.

For work on her first novel, The Jesus Conspiracy (fr. Qumran ), they were not with their existing knowledge of the Jewish world, but go operational for three years research, they by Israel , Qumran and in the United States led . The novel was published in 1996 and enjoyed great success from the start, eventually being translated into eighteen languages. The major publishing houses had rejected the manuscript until the Editions Ramsay publishing house, to which Abécassis had connections through her father, accepted it.

The book Asche und Gold , published the following year, describes the mysterious murder of a Berlin theologian. The novel "uses the means of crime literature to discuss highly complex questions of the Shoah , the extermination of the Jews during the Third Reich, and their evaluation by historians or by the surviving witnesses as well as theodicy questions (...)."

In 1998, Éliette Abécassis wrote an essay on the philosophical origins of killing: Petite Métaphysique du meurtre (Small Metaphysics of Murder) . Her novel The Aborted is a finalist at the Académie française novel prize and the Prix ​​Femina . For this novel, she drew inspiration from the script she had written for Kadosh , which was filmed by Israeli director Amos Gitai . To prepare the script, the author lived for six months in the ultra-orthodox district of Me'a She'arim in Jerusalem .

Le Trésor du temple (The Temple Treasure) from 2001 continues the story of Qumran : The two protagonists come together again to explore the mystery of the Temple of Jerusalem. The Qumran trilogy is based on the one hand on the adventure novel and the thriller and on the other hand packs a lot of background knowledge metaphysical .

After these novels are published, Abécassis' work takes on a more personal and psychological note. The novel Mon père (My Father) , published in 2002, tells of a father-daughter relationship. The novel Clandestin (Heimlich) was shortlisted for the Prix ​​Goncourt in 2003.

Works

  • Qumran / The Jesus Conspiracy , Roman, Livre de Poche / Hoffmann and Campe 1996
  • L'Or et la cendre / Ashes and Gold , Roman, Verlag Diana 1997
  • Petite Métaphysique du meurtre , essay, 1998
  • La Répudiée / The Outcast , Roman, Librairie Générale Française / Philo 2000
  • Le Trésor du temple , Roman, 2001
  • Mon père , Roman, 2002
  • Clandestin , Roman, 2003
  • La Dernière Tribu , 2004
  • Un heureux événement / A happy event , Hachette / Heyne 2005
  • Le Corset invisible , 2007
  • Mère et fille, un roman , Roman, 2008
  • Sépharade , 2009 (Alberto Benveniste Prize 2010).
  • Le Messager , 2009 (with Mark Crick)
  • Une affaire conjugale , 2010
  • Et te voici permise à tout homme , 2011
  • Le palimpseste d'archimède , 2013
  • Un secret du docteur Freud , Roman, 2014
  • L'âme juive , text for the illustrated book, Éditions Gründ 2018

Film adaptations

Web links

Commons : Eliette Abécassis  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica , Volume I (Aa-Alp), 2nd ed., Thomson Gale, Detroit, 2007, ISBN 978-0-02-865929-9 , p. 244
  2. ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica, Volume I (Aa-Alp), 2nd ed., Thomson Gale, Detroit, 2007, ISBN 978-0-02-865929-9 , p. 244
  3. ↑ Klaus-Peter Walter (Ed.): Reclams Krimi-Lexikon . Authors and works. Philipp Reclam Jun., Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-15-010509-9 , p. 15.
personal data
SURNAME Abécassis, Éliette
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg