Douro Editions "Through reading, we become absent from ourselves and our own lives." Alphonse Karr
Bernard Delambre

Bernard Delambre a connu une enfance difficile et les prisons parisiennes, les sectes, le monde de l’art, et s’est intéressé aux courants spirituels les plus divers, retrace dans ces lignes, parfois drôles ou émouvantes, un chemin personnel truffé d’anecdotes, qui répond aux nombreuses questions qui se posent autour de cette aventure aurovilienne. Responsable du Centre d’Art d’Auroville, après trente-quatre ans de présence permanente en Inde, à Auroville, il consacre la majeure partie de ses activités à l’écriture.
In this second story, the author takes us on the paths that led him in 1969 to Auroville, this utopian city, founded on February 21, 1968. At a time when the media talk extensively about Auroville, offering reports that are not always accurate, it is interesting to discover through these pages offered to us, a particular itinerary by one of the pioneers who founded this experience of a new community life that continues in the south of India, near Pondicherry.
December 2022
In this story, the author evokes the initiatory journey of a young man in search of his reason for being from a prison cell where he was twenty years old.
Torn between a deep aspiration to live a high ideal and the vital need to heal the wounds of his childhood, he confides in these sometimes moving pages, the intimate behind-the-scenes of an unusual journey.
April 2021