The Promise of the paddle

the promise of the paddle is an Autobiographical novel of Romain Gary, published in 1960: adapted to the cinema by Jules Dassin in 1971 and to the theater. This book brings international notoriety to him.

Caution: the filiation of Kacew/Gary with the Mosjoukine actor remains ambiguous; Gary, which admired this man, perhaps never really saw it, and this one is not besides surely his/her true father. Its parent would be an anonymity, which would have separated from his/her mother when Roman Kacew was still small… The identity difficulty of the Gary author thus comes in particular from this ambiguity.

The promise of the paddle is also a novel on the maternal love. Or how an overflowing mother of love and ambition for her boy carries it beyond all this qu; it could have hoped for itself. For him, she believes in an extraordinary destiny nourishes of all her disappointed hopes of Jewish ex-actress exilee. This maternal love at the same time exhuberant and manufacturer are the point of anchoring of the book. The Gary young person does not judge nor does not comment on the maternal attitude, it lives with, clings to it and lets themselves transport with confidence and recognition. The dramatic turn of events of the end of the novel east strikes to the reader as a so intense pain which one should not there be delayed. Quotation: " It is not good to be so liked, so young, so early. Ca gives you bad habits. It is believed that it arrived. It is believed that exists elsewhere, that can be found. One counts on top. One looks at, one hopes, one waits. With the maternal love, the life makes you at dawn a promise that it does not hold jamais."