Laurent Binet interview

"It was complicated. to be faithful to character, to facts; not to make things up and to resist the temptation to make things up. And so I felt it was an interesting problem and I decided to share all my thoughts about it. And you could see all my doubts, questions. Instead of erasing my mistakes or erasing when I couldn't resist the temptation to make it up, to use it for a discussion with the reader.''