HAPPY SISYPHUS - THE THOUSAND AND ONE PROJECTS OF MY TUMULTUOUS LIFE

"I am talking about a very small Jewish boy saved with my father, my mother and my sister by the communist maquis of Limousin and the inhabitants of Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat. This left me an imprescriptible debt to the Republic" writes Roland Castro in the introduction to this autobiographical essay where he tells in a blunt tone mixed with cheekiness the astonishing energy which led him to want to become everything – architect, writer, painter, philosopher, politician, acrobat, poet – since his birth on October 16, 1940 until today. And the most extraordinary, is that he succeeded! Isn't he one of the French architects the most famous? Isn't he a city thinker? Isn't he a a cartoonist full of humor and fantasy? Isn't he a fighter? relentless policy for livable urban spaces for all? Isn't it a poet who wants to re-enchant the world?