A writer burns his archives to avoid trouble after his death

Pierre Mac Orlan, writer and author of Le Quai des Brumes, destroyed a portion of his correspondence and personal archives in his garden at the end of his life. He committed this act of destruction to spare himself posthumous worries, according to his confidences to a witness of the scene. This destruction is part of a global approach where he also erased the traces of his youth to build a partially legendary biography.