Biography

Sophie Schulze, former student of Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy in Strasbourg, author of a study on Nathalie Sarraute published in the journal of the University of Moscow, has lived in Saudi Arabia, Nigeria and Russia. She now lives in Paris

"In the early twentieth century, in Germany, Franziska gives birth to Walter. This novel tells about Walter, Germany, and the century. Walter, exiled in France, becomes legionnaire and then minor. He married, had children, grew old, and died. An anonymous fate, buried in the multitude. A man like any other, who has no importance in History, and that History maltreats. From birth to death, the vertiginous time plot. What is a life worth? By combining the story of a man with the story of Humanity, whose tragic steps succeed with the frantic pace of this century, punctuated by the evocation of the great figures of german philosophy from Nietzsche to Heidegger and Hannah Arendt, Allée 7, rangée 38 , succeeds with an impressive evocation, in giving the overwhelming sensation of the precariousness of men" (presentation by the editor)

"The sentences are short, dry, like steps deep in the snow: He is torn. He is cut into pieces. All those he loves are far away, dispersed. He did not know that one day he would feel such pain. Where we see that Arendt or the cook are the same concerning a malaise in civilization. Often Arendt is not proud of his conceptual exploits and Alice in the kitchen, in the middle of a flan, starts waving her arms in all directions and shouts angrily against Walter for no reason. In an almost fragment writing, Sophie Schulze gives life to a humanity that does not hold together. "(E. L., Libération, August 27, 2011)

Husserl does not know London. He does not know, either, that Marx died. He has never heard of Nietzsche. Husserl knows only Germany. The only trip of which he dreams is the one that will lead him to lutheran protestantism. Only, from judaism to Luther, the road is long. So long that he hesitates to begin it. In the meantime, he focuses himself on mathematics, in which he hopes to find his logic. He is almost there, anyway. He knows it.