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MICHA LEWINSKY : Ben ou l’art de la fuite. Editions Moir sur Blanc, 2025.

Roman, 23 € / 37,50 CHF, 272 pages

Traduit de l’allemand (Suisse) par Aloïse Denis

Couverture © Doris Franconi

Ben Oppenheim, auteur raté et égocentrique, jongle entre son ex-femme, ses deux enfants et sa nouvelle petite amie, Julia. Il espère renouer avec le succès grâce à un scénario sur l’Holocauste, mais peine à convaincre sa productrice. Pourtant, la persécution de ses ancêtres façonne encore aujourd’hui toute sa vie. Alors lorsqu’un dépôt d’armes explose à la frontière biélorusse, Ben, pour qui tous les chemins mènent à la bombe atomique, s’interroge : résister ou se tirer ?

Obéissant à son instinct de fuite, la famille Oppenheim saute bientôt dans un avion, direction le Brésil, sur les traces du grand Stefan Zweig… S’ensuivront, dans le désordre, une cérémonie d’Ayahuasca, des ruptures et des réconciliations à tout-va, des théories conspirationnistes et une bonne dose de paranoïa.

Littéraire, audacieux, plein d’esprit : un premier roman aussi drôle que sincère, qui aborde avec autodérision les questions brûlantes de notre époque.

Micha Lewinsky est scénariste et a déjà plusieurs films à son actif en tant que réalisateur. Il vit à Zurich avec ses deux enfants. Ben ou l’art de la fuite est son premier roman.

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About the author

Nadia Sikorsky

Nadia Sikorsky was born and raised in Moscow. She graduated from the Faculty of Journalism at Moscow State University and went on to complete her postgraduate studies there, earning a PhD in History. She spent 13 years at UNESCO, first in Paris and then in Geneva. After serving as Director of Communications at Green Cross International, founded by Mikhail Gorbachev, she launched NashaGazeta.ch in 2007, Switzerland’s first Russian-language online daily newspaper.

In 2022, Nadia Sikorsky was named to Le Temps’ Forum des 100, which brings together individuals who, in the newspaper’s view, have “significantly contributed to the success of French-speaking Switzerland”, from across public life, business, politics, science and culture.

After 18 years at the helm of NashaGazeta.ch, Nadia Sikorsky decided to devote herself to what had always held a special place in her work as a journalist: culture in all its diversity. This led to the creation of Russian Accent, a trilingual cultural blog in Russian, French and English, born in the heart of Europe, in Switzerland, which has become her second home and whose multiculturalism and multilingualism have helped shape the character of this new project.

At the heart of the project is the perspective of a European of Russian origin, drawing on more than 35 years of professional experience and a deep knowledge of both cultural traditions. Nadia Sikorsky sees her role as that of a cultural mediator between the two. The title of the blog, Russian Accent, reflects this idea: the accent is neither a linguistic barrier nor a political position, but a distinctive cultural imprint within a European context.

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