“I practice perversity in writing!” »

We are wary of books that make the gossipers of Saint-Germain-des-Prés salivate in anticipation. Your promise is Camille Laurens’ first novel since the so-called “Louboutin Shoah” affair. The story, which dates back to September 2021, then hit the headlines: the mother-slaps-hard-of-the-petit-monde-des-lettres-parisiennes had, in The Worlddedicated an episode of his literary series to slaying The Postcardthe book by Anne Berest, by her accused of entering “the gas chamber with her big clogs with red soles”, while the book appeared on the first selection of the Goncourt academy (of which she is…) alongside that of her companion at the time, François Noudelmann, who is moreover on the same subject: the destiny of ancestors persecuted Jews.