“I wrote to him to let him know that I am working on this book. I asked him for access to some of his archives, but he did not respond,” the author said.
Jean-Jacques Goldman said he was saddened by the recent publication of his biography by historian Ivan Yablonka. “I have never met this author, nor have my friends, and I feel sad for all the people who have been tricked into buying these books about me,” he told The Daily Mail this week. chained duck. The singer’s statement is all the more striking given that since his departure 20 years ago, he has very rarely appeared in the media.
Ivan Yablonka reacted on Monday to criticism from the artist, of whom he is a fan. “I’m not very surprised, because it fits with his logic of withdrawing from public life. In addition, I wrote to him to let him know that I was writing this book. I asked him to grant access to some of his archives and he did not answer, he refused,” the historian pointed out on France Inter. According to chained duckGoldman’s relatives also refused to speak to the author.
“The historian is not an authorized person. The historian embodies freedom of thought, expression. The purpose of a social science book is to tell the truth. And it doesn’t matter if one or the other doesn’t like it, the very definition of history is research in the absence,” said Ivan Yablonka, winner of the Prix Médicis 2016, who defines his essay as a social study of the Goldman phenomenon.