"As you know, I am a novelist, and I really want to write novels. But I knew enough about the Dreyfus case to understand immediately why what happened to Dreyfus was not merely a cause celebre from the end of the 19th century, but an event that could be shown to teach us lessons of the greatest importance for our own time."

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Source : Interview with David B. Green, www.haaretz.com. January 3, 2010.

Louis Begley

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