by Lionel Duroy · ISBN 9782260030003
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«Eugenia» is the historical novel by Lionel Duroy, published in 2018 by Julliard (487 pages, in French).
Romania, 1930s: Eugenia, a young student, discovers antisemitism when she meets a Jewish novelist. Hatred spreads through society, including her family, as fascism advances in Europe. The novel recreates the Jassy pogrom, an episode of World War II, and portrays a woman seeking to understand the origin of evil.
The cover shows the subtitle «roman», the 2019 Anaïs Nin Prize and the LC classification PQ2664.U6887 E94 2018.
For readers of historical fiction interested in the rise of fascism and the lesser-known episodes of World War II.
Lionel Duroy de Suduiraut is a French writer and journalist born in Bizerte (Tunisia) into an impoverished family of aristocratic origin who long shared extreme right-wing ideas. His youth in this environment left a profound mark on him and was the breeding ground for many of his books.. Lionel Duroy was first a delivery man, a courier, a worker, then a journalist at Libération and at L'événement du jeudi. Since the publication of his first novel in 1990, he has devoted himself entirely to writing novels with essentially autobiographical content. He is happy to talk about his mother, the family trauma linked to his father's war wounds and the legal expulsion of his family from their home in 1955 - following a lack of solidarity from the rest of the family.
