My point of view on what was already called "the Ajar affair" and which was, after all, only "The Romain Gary Affair", seemed to me to fit perfectly in an issue devoted to the French novella. It appeared there in a section created for the occasion and immediately earned me criticism from many colleagues who judged that I was mistaken. To such an extent that I refrained from mentioning it in my list of publications.

Rereading it today, I see nothing to change, except that the titles and dates should be specified, adding how all this ended up in cinema in several films, including, very recently, L'Enchanteur, directed by Philippe Lefebvre, co-written by novelists Maria Pourchet and François-Henri Désérable. We are told that it "revisits with lightness the story of a famous literary hoax in the form of a plea in favor of fiction mixing reality and invention."