We felt this “flaw” emerging in Blandine Rinkel’s work as a novelist. Two years ago, “Vers la violence” looked back on the virilist education of a father and its after-effects, and won him the Grand Prix des Lectrices from ELLE. So by writing the word “family” without the “m”, the writer engages in non-fiction, and delivers a text nourished by references and experiences, which questions what a life can be “outside the family”. It’s precise, generous, solid and wonderfully well written.
SHE. – This book starts from an intimate questioning, but is also enriched on each page by what you read, see, share… How did the form of non-fiction establish itself?
Blandine Rinkel. – It’s true that I wrote from something that I had not formulated until then, but that I have been working on for a long time: a community of solitudes that I find in books, films, and also in certain strangers with whom I happened to have dazzling conversations. As for the form, which oscillates between several genres, it came from an obvious fact: after “Vers la violence”, I launched quite quickly into a novel, but
