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On the Saturday morning of January 9, 1993, while Jean Claude Romand was killing his wife and children, I was with mine in a parent-teacher meeting. Who could have imagined Jean Claude Romand as a murderer? He was after all a distinguished doctor at the World Health Organisation, an irreproachable husband and father and a loving son. If there was a problem, no one knew it. But there were many. Unknown to anyone Romand had no medical qualifications; he had no job and no influential contacts; and he had spent all his in-laws' money. When a relative went to break the terrible news of the murder of his wife and children to Romand's parents, they too were dead - murdered by the stranger who had been their son. A mesmerising account of the hundreds of daily lies that propelled one man's life, The Adversary is also a meditation on the mystery of identity, evil and the desperate logic by which it is easier to kill than to confess.… (mais)
Much as I enjoy a good action-thriller film every once in a while I do not generally read crime fiction, or crime non-fiction for that matter. I have been a victim of crime more times than I care to discuss and I have very low regard for criminals. I mean really low. It was by accident that I was lured into this account of Jean-Claude Romand. Romand is no "romantic" criminal. Except for maybe Robin Hood, there are no romantic criminals for me. In the telling of this story there is a man with a great void in him. And stupidity. And cowardice. There is an emptiness of meaning. In some ways this story is a distillation of some of my greatest fears. My fears that I will some day let down my family. My fears that I myself am an empty vessel. At the same time it is a call to me not to be consumed by my fears, and not to let what little truth I know escape into the emptiness of space. ( )
L'avversario può condurre al doppio di se stessi e. come Stevenson insegna, l'ambivalenza è comune negli uomini.
Carrere: "Desidero farle capire che a spingermi verso di lei non è una curiosità malsana o il gusto del sensazionale. Ai miei occhi, ciò che lei ha fatto non è il gesto di un comune criminale, né di un pazzo, ma di un uomo spinto agli estremi da forze che non controlla, e vorrei mostrare all'opera proprio queste terribili forze."
Beautifully written true crime story about someone whose life is a void, defined wholly by lies. Absolutely amazing story lacked into a very short book. I listened to this on Audible and was transfixed. ( )
El 9 de enero de 1993, Jean-Claude Romand mató a su mujer, sus hijos, sus padres e intentó, sin éxito, darse muerte. La investigación reveló que no era médico, tal como pretendía y, cosa aún más difícil de creer, tampoco era otra cosa. Mentía desde los dieciocho años ( )
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em Italiano.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
La mattina del sabato 9 gennaio 1993, mentre Jean-Claude Romand uccideva sua moglie e i suoi figli, io ero a una riunione all'asilo di Gabriel, il mio figlio maggiore, insieme a tutta la famiglia. Gabriel aveva cinque anni, la stessa età di Antoine Romand. Più tardi siamo andati a pranzo dai miei genitori, e Romand dai suoi. Dopo mangiato ha ucciso anche loro. Ho trascorso da solo, nel mio studio, il pomeriggio del sabato e l'intera domenica, in genere dedicati alla vita familiare, perché stavo finendo un libro al quale lavoravo da un anno: la biografia dello scrittore di fantascienza Philip K. Dick. L'ultimo capitolo raccontava i giorni che lo scrittore aveva passato in coma prima di morire. Ho finito il martedì sera, e il mercoledì mattina ho letto il primo articolo di "Libération" sul caso Romand.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em Francês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Tout au long de l'instruction le juge n'a cessé de s'étonner que ces coups de fils n'aient pas été passé plus tôt, sans malice ni soupçon, simplement parce que, même quand on est "très cloisonné", travailler pendant dix ans sans que jamais votre femme ni vos amis ne vous appelle au bureau, cela n'existe pas. Il est impossible de penser à cette histoire sans se dire qu'il y a là un mystère et une explication cachée. Mais le mystère, c'est qu'il n'y a pas d'explication et que, si invraisemblable que cela paraisse, cela s'est passé ainsi.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em Italiano.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Ho pensato che scrivere questa storia non poteva essere altro che un crimine o una preghiera.
On the Saturday morning of January 9, 1993, while Jean Claude Romand was killing his wife and children, I was with mine in a parent-teacher meeting. Who could have imagined Jean Claude Romand as a murderer? He was after all a distinguished doctor at the World Health Organisation, an irreproachable husband and father and a loving son. If there was a problem, no one knew it. But there were many. Unknown to anyone Romand had no medical qualifications; he had no job and no influential contacts; and he had spent all his in-laws' money. When a relative went to break the terrible news of the murder of his wife and children to Romand's parents, they too were dead - murdered by the stranger who had been their son. A mesmerising account of the hundreds of daily lies that propelled one man's life, The Adversary is also a meditation on the mystery of identity, evil and the desperate logic by which it is easier to kill than to confess.
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