“Can’t you see I’m burning.” Nathalie Rheims. Éditions Léo Scheer. 146 pages. €19.
To a haunted work where the ghosts of the brother, the mother, the men loved and never far from these surroundings intersect, the personality both intense and inaccessible of the father, Nathalie Rheims adds a final journey to an intimate land by way of announces his retirement from the life of letters.
Fertile literary ground
“Can’t you see that I’m burning” revolves around a riddle whose essence is more important than the resolution. It is the story of the unusual childhood of a little girl entrusted very early to analysis sessions with one of the most eminent psychoanalysts of the time, Serge Leibovici. However, as a teenager, a surprise exchange between two doors sows doubt. What if this man attached to probing his unconscious every Thursday was his real biological father and not academician Maurice Rheims? Between the worldly auctioneer, charming as hell, who hardly listens to his daughter, and the good-natured psychoanalyst who gives her his attention at a fixed time, young Nathalie Rheims walks tightrope between secrets and lies. Who is his father? “How important in the end! », sweeps away his mother one day, shortly before disappearing from home, attracted by another lover.
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An early spectator of the theater of human comedy, Nathalie Rheims depicts the casualness of adults who are kings of dissimulation. On this unstable base, she will adapt to the fluctuating boundaries between imagination and real life. A fertile literary ground, on which she has built around twenty Books as singular as they are endearing.
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