LITERARY BACK TO SCHOOL – “Always Love Him” by Matthieu Gounelle was published in August 2024 by Arléa
Christian Dorsan, author, blogger and contributor to the 20 Minutes Books reading group, recommends “Toujours l’aimer” by Matthieu Gounelle, published on August 29, 2024 by Éditions Arléa.
His favorite quote:
No, I didn’t try to be a mother at all costs. Basically, a great many men and women have children to reign: incapable as they are of guiding their own lives, they reproduce in order to have control over a being whose weakness will ensure their triumph.
Why this book?
Because this first novel recalls a miscellaneous fact from 2013 when a woman “guided by a diabolical force” abandoned her 15-month-old daughter on the beach at high tide. Director Alice Diop made an award-winning film about it at Venice. This time, in this novel, the child is a boy and there is no question of a diabolical force or any imbalance in the mother. Matthieu Gounelle gives voice to a rather sensible, rational woman, who tells an interlocutor or interlocutors the story of a particular day and details her bond with Matthieu – the only character to have a first name in the book – her son.Because there is love between this mother and her child. Too much, perhaps. She speaks, she explains: the fear that this child will later live without her, the fear that he will never be(…) - 20minutes
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