"Mudwoman" is actually the story of a lost battle because davance to hide a past become too heavy to erase, consciously or unconsciously living sequences as essential as traumatic. Until what the circumstances, life, make the pressure rise to the surface with all the violence of obstacles too slowly contents and indomitable having accumulated kinetic energy.
This fight, this is that of Meredith Ruth Neukirchen called "MR, a young woman of forty-one, brilliant graduate of philosophy at Harvard, talented speaker, attractive and yet still single because choosing the wrong men in her life as her current "lover hidden," a professor dastronomie entangled in a failed marriage but unable den draw the inevitable consequences.
For MR, while appearance is fine. Here named first woman president dune prestigious University of Livy League. The day of his enthronement, it must deliver a much anticipated speech in a context where lAmérique comes dentrer war against Lirak. Yet it is so organized, it is Lagenda which if timed, it will decide at the last moment to go do a little impromptu trip in the Adirondacks. An act presquinconscient because she wants to find the place where she lived little. And that's when we learn that MR is actually lower depths of society. Born of an unknown father, she was thrown into the mud by a crazy mother and miraculously saved dune certain death by suffocation by a vagabond and simple minded. Entrusted to a family docking disreputable, it will be adopted by a couple of Quakers whose fraternal gesture will, as we shall see, not stripped-darrière thoughts at least very disturbing.
All his life, MR struggled against his origins. All her life she sought to truly sapparenter dadoption before his family, gradually detach sen as we shall discover.
This trip will run at lépreuve and reopen a breach in the shell of superficial and fragile mud. For behind the apparent strength of MR hide many weaknesses, huge doubts, fears and shame that covers a certain hardness.
During dincessants return, we will learn everything from MR and attend an inexorable descent into madness of a well-dauto destruction only escape to a past too much to bear. These are dailleurs these pages where this perception of reality saltère where visions and phobias are superimposed on reality to the point of the indifférencier which are the most masterful and most troubling.
Troubled lon certainly emerge of a powerful and often frightening novel because he tells us of the fragility of our psychic equilibrium.
Published by Editions Philippe Rey 2013 563 pages
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