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English summary: Giovanni Falcone was one of the prime actors in the fight against the Cosa Nostra, and paid with this life. This much needed biography of Falcone presents a judge with a fine intelligence and implacable will, one who would become revered in his native Sicily for the struggle he led to liberate his homeland from the weight of the mafia. French description: Figure historique de la lutte antimafia, le juge Falcone, sauvagement assassine par Cosa Nostra en 1992, est un heros des temps modernes. Dans une Italie en mal de reperes moraux, il continue d'incarner, vingt ans apres sa disparition, le combat pour l'Etat de droit et des valeurs de courage, d'abnegation, de lucidite face a une corruption erigee en systeme. Souvent incompris et parfois hai de son vivant, il est devenu dans la Peninsule, et specifiquement sur son ile natale de Sicile, une figure historique veneree, presque mythique. Et pourtant, cet homme qui perca le premier les secrets de la mafia sicilienne et le paya de sa vie demeure un quasi inconnu en France. Exception faite d'un livre d'entretiens realise un an avant sa mort par la journaliste francaise Marcelle Padovani, aucun ouvrage en langue francaise ne lui a ete consacre, aucune biographie de Falcone n'a ete traduite de l'italien ou de l'anglais. Le livre de David Brunat vient combler ce manque en ressuscitant la figure du juge de facon particulierement juste et originale. Au fil d'une meditation personnelle et engagee empreinte d'une poesie tendre et melancolique, l'auteur de Titanic et d'Histoires de la Mafia rappelle l'importance pour les societes democratiques de ne jamais deposer les armes face au crime organise. Magistrat hors pair dote d'une intelligence aigue et d'une volonte implacable, amoureux de la Sicile et de la vie, fin lettre et francophile, Giovanni Falcone fut a sa facon un guide, un eclaireur. Le present ouvrage dessine le portrait d'un homme debout, d'un honnete homme fauche par les forces du mal mais qui continue a vivre dans la memoire des hommes de bien. David Brunat, philosophe de formation, travaille dans la communication. Essayiste, auteur de Titanic, mythe moderne et parabole pour notre temps aux Belles Lettres (2013), il s'est penche depuis plusieurs annees sur la question de la criminalite organisee et a publie en 2012 Histoires de la Mafia (Fetjaine - La Martiniere).


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9782251790022
  • Publisher: Les Belles Lettres
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: French
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 0 mm
  • Width: 150 mm
  • ISBN-10: 2251790020
  • Publisher Date: 06 Feb 2014
  • Height: 210 mm
  • No of Pages: 144
  • Series Title: Manitoba / Hors Collection
  • Weight: 110 gr


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