Hatred and even hatred

Difficult to read this block of more than 700 pages without feeling some nausea face this autobiography filled with hatred against the mother of the author. One can not reproach a glaring lack of objectivity on the part of Duroy, who is the advocate (devil?) Of a small-time crook father who, through negligence and irresponsibility, plunged his family of 10 children in a shipwreck.
Certainly, Suzanne, the mother, is not perfect either. But we insist on a real trial with the gall of the author makes us feel uncomfortable sometimes. Especially as the reasons for this hatred is not so justified in itself. Suzanne was certainly a cold bourgeois, worldly aspirations, which has not been able to manage the upheavals of his existence: their expulsion from Neuilly to land in a poor city of the Black Coast, management of a large family, etc .. .but it has abused his children. The only "abuse" that the author reproached is more psychological. He suffered from not being the child "elected", as evidenced by his sense of abandonment when her mother had to take care of the illness of his brother Frederic.
By comparing himself to a "Nazi hunter" stalking its prey in this "reckoning" and to use force and abuse of insults (the "sluts" or other "bitch" to describe it) it is understandable that his siblings are away from him ... and readers with.

What could "redeem" the author, it is undoubtedly its extreme sensitivity which partly explains its overreaction. These other siblings did not react well. This is where the divergence of viewpoints becomes interesting. The writing is a catharsis for the author the opportunity to purge his emotions and to express his anger. The style is thought (of course), cold and without much literary interest.
This story is controversial and can trigger conflicting passions. Each, according to its sensitivity and responsiveness, will either take pity author and defend, while another part of the electorate could blame him thus interfere with his parent.