Jewish writer n in Romania, Benjamin Fondane, he was recognized in his country and established in Paris at the age of 25. As a thinker, playwright and writer, he is modern and attentive to the avant-garde, but he keeps his distance from schools and doctrines, political movements and social movements and seeks his own way, her personal response to timeless questions such as those posed by her friend.
During the years 1930 and 1940, Fondane dialogue with the most important personalities of his time: Artaud, Bachelard, Camus, Cioran, to name but a few. D final is the meeting with the existential philosopher L on Chestov of which he becomes a disciple. Among his artist friends, Brancusi, Brauner, Man Ray We have left him with tinkling portraits.
On 7 March 1944, he was imprisoned in Drancy. His wife was able to obtain his freedom, but he refused to abandon his sister Line, waiting for me to do so. D port to Auschwitz, he is an assassin in a gas chamber on 2 or 3 October 1944.
