Maylis Kerangal I saw and heard you the first time in a television program on a recognized chain and you memory débattiez on life and medicine as well as the diseases that plague us but which, thanks to advances surgery and transplants, be stopped. Your arguments and reflection on the integrity of our body as well as your opinion on the fact that it must be "desecrate" have totally convinced me. The symbolic heart particularly questioned. Then I saw you twice in a week devoted to television and radio programs that fills at least 50% of the pages of themes to make us reflect on our society by intervening criticisms of all shows of France and Navarre. Read your interview see your picture up in smoldering page and the next week you find adulated, I familiarized myself a little in you and when the opportunity for a business trip came up, I bought "repair living "your book. I just finish it and my ambivalent impression. Annoyance to real interest. Shift the gravity of choice Simon's parents by slices of lives of the protagonists they are doctors or not with phrases MOREOVER that span whole pages, most moult well gritty details for some, I do not understand! Bugger it is sad, indeed the weather is gray and cold, why not, but I find that the "fall" between the decision of parents who accept (why? How? What their journey?) And without wishing these lengths doubts make us taste the ridiculous does not make reading your fluid opus. As usual there is gap between the explanation of the approach of an author or an artist and his work, in your case I regret is striking. The question you ask is relevant and must thank you for having fictionalized. To end on a positive note, reading "Living repair" more akin to a movie script as you spend time to describe the environments, ideal for a director.