moving 24 January

Delphine de Vigan is a French author whose name has recently emerged to the public with the film adaptation of his novel No and Me, touching and heartbreaking novel.
Well this novel one also touched me deeply. It moved me to tears, touched, smile, rebellious ... A palette of feelings with which we are not necessarily comfortable. But whatever. This reading was admirable, and I do not regret a second! Thank you for this story!

Full of shame, fear, tragedies, silence and screams, violence and tenderness, this novel which tends to give an autobiographical dimension can not be ignored. Love it or hate this kind.

The author tells his mother. His mother as she apprehends through testimonials, oral or otherwise, of those who knew him. It all starts with his childhood, his siblings and his parents, the time and his adult life, his lapses and his despair.
It is a moving testimony of a woman who suffered from psychiatric disorders who far from his. A testimony of a child who is too soon faced life in this its most hard the loss - at all levels.

This book causes a feeling of voyeurism in the reader - we want to know more - feeling that hussy of a little shame in my case "how much is immersed in the life of this woman?".
But the characters are evolving, and narrative, moving, reveals different facets of the time, family, people. Our opinion evolves over book at As memories and revelations.
It was not the same look on Liane and George at the beginning and the end, as if we too were growing up, like Lucile. As Delphine.

The author has managed to illustrate in this novel the "traditional" family, large or not. The unsaid, the silences, the moments of joy, memories and traditions, but also the losses and hatreds, sorrows and injuries. Grudges and misunderstandings.

This novel is beautiful, sad, yet bears a certain joy. Life goes on.