Harold Cobert


			Jim Morrison’s Chronicle Harold Cobert "JIM" - Plon, France, 2014. ISBN 978-2-259-22242-6 I believed that I had read everything about Jim Morrison, that's why I waited to buy this book. I was pleasantly surprised because the author had the good idea to let Jim speak in the first person like he was telling his life story himself, his drinking, the debaucheries, his loves, his successes and his disillusions. And in the end we believe it! We are carried along by the intimate confessions of the Lizard King. Even though we don’t learn anything new about the man, the singer, the poet, we have the advantage of Jim being brought closer to us and more human. Harold Cobert understood Jim's character very well, a charming man, who finds himself in Paris disillusioned at the end of his life, angry against society and his «entourage» and finally against himself. He let himself falling into the star system trap, and finished by wasting all the beautiful promises that were offered to him in the beginning ... and the author does this beautifully in Jim's own voice. That's why I recommend you read it even though you think you know everything about Jim Morrison. At the moment the book is only available in French. © Patricia Devaux for The Doors Quarterly Magazine Online - 2015
			La Chronique de Jim Morrison Harold Cobert "JIM" - Plon, France, 2014. ISBN 978-2-259-22242-6 Je croyais avoir tout lu sur Jim Morrison c'est pourquoi j'ai attendu avant de me décider à acheter ce livre. J'ai été agréablement surprise car l'auteur a eu la bonne idée de faire parler Jim à la première personne comme si il nous racontait lui même sa vie, ses boires et déboires, ses amours, ses succès et ses désillusions. Et au final on y croit! On se laisse prendre par ces confessions intimes du Roi Lézard qui, si elles ne nous apprennent rien de nouveau sur l'homme, le chanteur, le poète qu'il était ont l'avantage de le rendre plus proche, plus humain. Harold Cobert a bien cerné le personnage de Jim, un homme attachant, qui se retrouve à Paris à la fin de sa vie, désabusé, en colère contre la société, ses proches et par dessus tout contre lui même qui a fini par gâcher toutes les belles promesses qui s'offraient à lui... Un livre à lire donc même si l'on croit tout savoir sur Jim Morrison. Pour le moment cet ouvrage est uniquement disponible en français. © Patricia Devaux pour The Doors Quarterly Magazine Online - 2015