White dog
White Chien is an account of Romain Gary, written in 1969 and published in 1970.
Chien Blanc tells the history of Batka, a large German shepherd who makes irruption in the life of the author and his wife, celebrates it actress Jean Seberg. The action proceeds in California, then in France, at the beginning of 1968, in full fight of the Blacks for their Civic right and during the racial riots which follow the assassination of Martin Luther King.
Jean Seberg is at that time very personally committed at the sides of the Black Americans.
To the great displeasure of its new Masters, Batka proves to be a White Chien i.e. a dog raised in one of the states of the South and savagely drawn up against the Blacks.
Not being able to be solved to cut down it and refusing the irremediable one, Romain Gary decides with the assistance of a Black, Keys, to rehabilitate the dog.
This intense beautiful book is the occasion for Romain Gary to denounce all racisms and all hypocrisies. Racism of the White towards the Blacks, of course, but also racism in return of the Blacks and hypocrisy of the White which have sometimes reasons well little satisfied to join the fight for desegregation. On the funds coloured of the traumatic events of the time (the War of Vietnam to the the United States, May 68 in Paris), the novel gives the opportunity to Romain Gary to reveal a deep humanism and to write a vibrating plea against the Silly thing.
It was drawn a film from this book: Drawn up to kill , carried out by Samuel Fuller.
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