Eliette Abécassis

ELIETTE Abecassis ( born January 27, 1969 in Strasbourg ) is a French writer.

Life

ELIETTE Abecassis attended the elite École Normale Supérieure high school and studied philosophy. She teaches in Caen. Her father Armand Abecassis is a renowned philosophy professor and historian of Jewish intellectual history. ELIETTE itself is a practicing Jew, and her life is marked by the Jewish religion or culture.

For the work on her first novel The Jesus Conspiracy (French Qumran ), they were not with their existing knowledge of the Jewish world happy, but operational for three years research that led her to Israel, Qumran and in the USA. The novel was published in 1996 and has had great success from the start, he was eventually translated into eighteen languages. The big publishing houses had rejected the manuscript to the publishing house Editions Ramsay, to the Abecassis about her father had connections, this took.

Released the following year on ash and gold book describes the mysterious murder of a Berlin theologians. The novel " uses the funds of crime fiction to highly complex questions of the Shoah, the extermination of the Jews during the Third Reich, un their evaluation by historians or by the surviving witnesses and Theodizeefragen (...) to discuss. "

1998 wrote ELIETTE Abecassis an essay on the philosophical origins of the killing: Petite Métaphysique you meurtre ( Small metaphysics of the murder ). Her novel The Outcast is a finalist in the Novel Prize of the Académie française and the Prix Femina. For this novel she took the inspiration from the script, which she had written for the film Kadosh and which was made ​​into a film by Israeli director Amos Gitai. For the development of the screenplay, the author had lived for six months in the Orthodox Jewish neighborhood Me'a She'arim in Jerusalem.

Le Trésor du temple ( The temple treasure ) from 2001 is the story of Qumran continued: the two protagonists come together again to explore the secret of the Temple of Jerusalem. The Qumran trilogy leans one hand on the adventure novel and the thriller, and wrapped the other hand, a lot of background knowledge metaphysical.

After this novel Publications Abecassis ' work receives a more personal and more psychological note. The novel appeared in 2002 Mon père ( My Father ) tells of a father -daughter relationship. The novel Clandestin ( Heimlich ) was added to the pre-selection of the Prix Goncourt in 2003.

Works

• Qumran / The Jesus conspiracy novel, Livre de Poche / Hoffmann and Campe 1996
• L' Or et la cendré / ash and gold, novel, publishing Diana 1997
• Petite Métaphysique you meurtre, essay, 1998
• La Répudiée / The Outcast, novel, Librairie Générale Française / Philo 2000
• Le Trésor du temple, novel, 2001
• Mon père, novel, 2002
• Clandestin, novel, 2003
• La Dernière Tribu, 2004
• Un heureux événement / A joyous occasion, Hachette / Heyne 2005
• Le Corset invisible, 2007
• Mère et fille, un roman, novel, 2008
• Sepharade, 2009. (Alberto Benveniste Price 2010).
• Le Messager, 2009 ( with Mark Crick )
• Une affaire conjugale, 2010
• Et voici Permise te à tout homme, 2011
• Le palimpsests d' Archimede 2013

Films

• 2011: A joyous occasion, Director: Rémi Bezançon