Friday January 17, 2025
Le Monte-en-l’air
Sunday December 8, 2024
From the maritime periphery of a family apartment poisoned by the omnipotence of a head of family, in the company of The Figure, as much fictional guide, picaresque acolyte (“One day my Sancho Panza, another my inner storm”) as essential double, the narrator bears witness to the difficult fight for personal emancipation.
How it will be necessary to put an end to the appetite for revenge which knows so well how to keep it straight. In the material of his memory, and his imaginary refuges, he sets up his excavation site. The text, like a tunnel boring machine piloted by a clown or a bullfighter, obstinately sinks into the past, only to resurface here and there. Funny, tragic, poem of rubble, hatred, crash, poem of love and doubts, and above all, above all, song for the mother.
Bertrand Belin delivers a wonderful, modest and playful story, which twists the autobiographical confession into shattering language. With this final and poignant confidence: “But maybe I’m bragging. Obviously, I don’t believe in the possibility of my scouring. »
The Figure
Bertrand Belin
Released in January 2025
176 pages, 18 €
ISBN : 978-2-8180-6253-1
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Friday January 17, 2025 at 7:30 p.m.
Le Monte-en-l’air
2 rue de la Mare
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