“Talk to you about my son” by Philippe Besson, the hell of school bullying – Libération

In This is not a news item, published in January 2023, Philippe Besson was inspired by a feminicide. Two years later, the writer looks at another type of violence in Tell you about my son : school bullying. “When I was bullied at 14 in middle school, we didn’t call it that”he said on the set of C to youJanuary 8. Today, the phenomenon is recognized as a scourge. If in Besson the subject becomes a novel, at the same time the dramatic story of a mother rubs shoulders with it in bookstores. In Lucas, symbol in spite of himself (Harper Collins), Séverine Vermard wrote about the ordeal of her son who ended his life at 13 years old. Hugo, the teenager Tell you about my son, committed suicide at age 14, after months of physical and moral persecution. For a day, Vincent, his father, retraces the course of the events that led to his death, while attending the