Sorj Chalandon on the continued relevance of ‘The Fourth Wall’

Seán’s guest wrote a book over 10 years ago that he never suspected could become as relevant now as it has.Sorj Chalandon spent 25 years covering wars across Northern Ireland, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq and Syria as a journalist. He then turned to novels, with his book ‘The Fourth Wall’ utilising his memories and emotions of reporting on these wars, and turning them into a story.The book, set between Paris and Beirut in 1982 at the second Israeli invasion of Lebanon, follows the lives of Georges and his friend Samuel, a Greek Jewish Theatre Director and the staging of Jean Anouilh’s ‘Antigone’.Sorj joins to discuss…