John Lucas

I recently interviewed Erwan Larher, French novelist and author of The Book I Didn’t Want to Write, a literary account of surviving the 2015 terrorist attack at the Bataclan theatre.

Here’s some of what he had to say about his inspiration for writing the book:

It’s a huge question, how three French people—because they are not coming from another planet, they were just French; they could have been my neighbours or my colleagues at work—decide to commit suicide, killing 90 people. That’s a huge question; I think that questions a lot of values, a lot of things about the way we live together. So that’s how it began, when I made the switch between a personal drama and the collective drama.

Read the rest at Straight.com.