This is the 26th book Before the memory fades (Le Cherche midi), which Olivier de Kersauson (80 years old) published. There is precious secrets about his new life in Tahiti with his wife Sandradiscreet Polynesian and younger than him. Father of Arthur born in 1980, the fruit of his love with his ex-wife Caroline Piloquet-Verne (who died in 2005), he is also the grandfather by proxy of a granddaughter (that of his wife) . In his life therefore a lot of love despite the solitude which of course marks his life as a sailor, which we no longer present. Love, Olivier de Kersauson talks about it in the pages of his work, in particular his vision of the couple.
“A life that is more or less fulfilled is a life where we are less often wrongwrites the seaman. But in the middle of all this, there is an interference: the interference is the other. With the other, we move towards an intuition. It can be beneficial or it can be completely negative. We see it in couples: when we have experienced one or the other separated, there are people that the couple multiplies and others that the couple extinguishes. Or divides.“And if he is attracted by the oceans and fantasizes about waking up alone on Earth as he makes it known, he still continues to let himself fall in love.
Olivier de Kersauson reveals himself, evoking love as rarely
“It’s a bet that I always make with others. Because I am still pushed, by attraction, by desire. I usually think before I betexplains Olivier de Kersauson. Whereas in the feeling of love, I think very little, I am taken away… It is the effect of the seduction of the other. That is to say, I am delighted.” On the subject of the feeling of love, he explains that it is often difficult to describe what we feel for the loved one. “Most of the time, when I ask lovers to describe their partner, they can’t; they can only tell me that he or she is great or wonderful or whatever, but they are unable to give me a real description of the other’s qualities. They are led by something… This something, often, it’s a way of breaking a certain form of solitudehe shares. It is only in love that we are not alone. It’s as if there was a bridge built with others, which allows us to really exchange ideas. It’s like a gateway actually. I believe that it is created, it exists first at the base and it is created.”
