Forty-three years ago today, on December 2, 1980, Roman Gary committed suicide at his home in Paris, ending his legendary life.
The reason why I say "legend" is because Roman Gary's life experience is so rich that he can't fill in a resume, and he seems to have lived a life several times more than others in more than 60 years. 
Roman Gary, whose original name was Roman Kashev, was born in Vilna (present-day Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania), under the rule of the Russian Empire, to Jewish parents. They divorced a few years later, so Roman Gary was largely raised by his mother**. The mother, who lost her finances, took the little Roman to live in Warsaw for a while, and then settled in Nice, France, because she was convinced that "there are the truest and most beautiful stories in the world;Liberty and equality for all;The artist was invited by the most honorable family;Hugo was a republic** "convinced that her son would grow up there, learn Xi, become a French ambassador, a ...... of the Chevalier de la Légion de la Lécor d'Honneur."The story goes smoothly, and the mother's promises for her son's future come true: Roman Gary goes to college and earns a bachelor's degree in law, while attending higher military training. It was the eve of World War II, and he desperately wanted to repay his mother by building up his military exploits. During this time, he threw himself into writing frantically, publishing his first few short stories**. After the outbreak of World War II, Romain Gary worked as a flight instructor at a military academy in Provence. After the defeat of France in 1940, under the call of General de Gaulle, whom he had always admired, to continue the war of resistance, he arrived in England, joined the "Free France" Air Force, and traveled to the front battlefields in the Middle East and North Africa. During a mission in 1944, Roman Gary was hit by a fighter jet and injured his pilot's eye, and Roman Gary commanded the pilot, who had lost three-quarters of his sight, to complete the bombing and land as the group navigator, a near-miraculous feat that earned him a Liberation Cross. For two decades after the war, Roman Gary worked in the diplomatic service, traveling extensively and serving as Consul General in Los Angeles for four years. 
Roman Gary's literary career also began to take off. In 1945, he published "Education in Europe" with the theme of the anti-fascist struggle of Polish partisans during World War II, which won the French Critics Award that year, and was also called "the best resistance movement" by Sartre, "Tiangen", which tells the story of elephant hunting and anti-elephant hunting in French equatorial Africa in the fifties of the twentieth century, and won the Goncourt Literary Prize in 1956. In 1960, Roman Gary's autobiography "The Promise of Childhood" was published, which was distributed in France in millions of copies, translated into many languages, and adapted into a film for the screen, which was widely circulated around the world, bringing the author international fame. At a time when his writing career was in full swing, Roman Gary had deep doubts about the literary circle in which he lived, doubting whether his works had really reached the height of public praise, so he published four novels under the pseudonym Emil Ayar**, among which "The Long Coming Day", which tells the story of the Arab orphan Mao Mao and the Jewish woman Madame Rosa, won the 1975 Goncourt Literary Prize. Since the Prix Goncourt stipulates that a writer can only receive the prize once in his lifetime, Romain Gary became the only writer to win the highest literary prize in France twice, which became a wonderful story in the history of French literature. 
Roman Gary's work is imbued with the quest for freedom and justice, with a spirit of humanism and optimism running through it, revealing the calamities facing human civilization and denouncing "fraud, lies and hypocrisy." His characters are always stubbornly refusing to succumb to the mediocrity of human society, wandering outside the system, and rebelling against all behaviors that make people lose their dignity. While they suffer from seeing their world destroyed, they continue to struggle with hope at any cost. Roman Gary himself has experienced such struggles, and he has added drama and humor to his own experiences, creating one new story after another. Roman Gary's works are often adapted into films, and he is also interested in the film industry, having adapted and written scripts, and later directed two productions and became a jury member at the Cannes Film Festival and the Berlin Film Festival. Writer, aviator, diplomat, director, screenwriter ......Roman Gary's multiple identities encapsulate his life of ups and downs, which can be called the life of a fighting nation writer. On many **s, Roman Gary's unkempt hair and piercing eyes make him look like an angry lion. He also burned to the very end of his life like a raging flame ("Gary" means "burning" in the second person command in Russian, and the pseudonym "Ayar" means "coals of fire"). 
The reason for Roman Gary's death remains a mystery to this day, and he left a letter stating that his choice had nothing to do with the suicide of his ex-wife, American actress Jane Sibble, the year before. We may find more clues in the writings and interviews of Roman Gary, who once said of his self-hanged character: "He entered the realm of freedom. Roman Gary was asked in a conversation with a journalist in 1978 what he thought of "aging," and his answer was: "Disaster." But I'm not going to get old. When hell freezes over. I imagine that was a cruel thing. Did you know?I made a pact with the heavenly gentleman that I would never grow old. Roman Gary chose to end himself, perhaps the ultimate way to fight aging. In accordance with his wishes, his ashes were scattered in the waters near the Mediterranean coastal town of Menton, where he made his first stop when he came to France with his mother. May his soul be free from all bondage in the azure waters and be free forever.