A motor cycle we are in 1935) strikes a tree of the English countryside. Banal accident, camouflaged suicide, the police
force is alert.
It is that the pilot, with the multiple identities, is Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia.
And, from the 13 to May 21, the time of the book and of Lawrence''s death (found in the coma), the brothers d'' Arvor plunge us in the unconscious one of the victim which re-examines its "lives" - of which that, in full
desert, wartime.
Not a sand grain to stop a writing which seems to make the words float , like a mirage.
"To
disappear" also made disappear all the images (often of Epinal) which stick to beautiful Lawrence. And often another
truth is revealed, that of the authors, the love of the desert, the hatred of the paparazzis for Patrick or the taste of the policy of the Middle East for Olivier.
Their book starts with "I missed my exit", eh well, them, make a success of their literary re-entry...!
Novel of Oliver and Patrick Pepper d''Arvor, 531 pages, Gallimard.