Nourished by the poetry of Brecht and Baudelaire, Stéphane Duroy continues his approach to the profound injustices which plunged European peoples into endless tragedy throughout the 20th century. His latest book Geisterbild places us at the heart of German society at the time of the slow gangrenisation of minds, of individuals of apparent banality, by the nauseating ideology of Nazism. Today, as an echo of the 1930s, human distress remains – whatever its face… loneliness, slavery, anti-Semitism, racism – a threat to our societies plunged into a deep social and moral crisis.