Article by François-David Sebbah

Three biographical excerpts from a Jewish lineage, transplanted between Algeria and France, are what philosopher François-David Sebbah offers us here. He himself is at the end of the story, in the guise of a child. It is by becoming a child again that he has written the book “His Lives in Africa”, from which these few pages are taken. He did so in order to better understand and reveal what has been secretly preserved and displaced within him from his eminently French Sephardic memory. We see that he himself is suspended in the manner of a paragraph attached to a longer text, impossible to unify, however, and therefore destined to appear in fragments.