This week will initiate a dialogue between two authors whose works question feminine realities through intimate stories. Mazarine Pingeot, with 11 quai Branly published by Éditions Flammarion, delves into her adolescence marked by the secret: that of being the hidden daughter of François Mitterrand.
“I lived with my parents on Quai Branly for nine and sixteen years. Which corresponds to what we call adolescence. it was not only the setting, but also the tomb. The staff apartment was empty, and nothing could fill it. Especially not me. A ghost. Whose presence no one could know in this place which was neither hers, nor his, nor theirs. I spent my adolescence in transient accommodation where no one passed by. My home was no one’s home. »
Returning to “l'Alma”, Mazarine M. Pingeot revisits a page of her personal life which became collective when others told the story of this secret and “golden” youth in her place. Time has passed, childhood has faded away, but today the perpetrator can revive it by experiencing the return. Is it possible, many years later, to rethink one's childhood more accurately and to emancipate oneself from it?
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This initiation story explores the construction of female identity in a particular setting, that of an impersonal apartment, subject to security requirements, and under the heavy shadow of media coverage. The way we become ourselves when we grow up in forced discretion, before being exposed to the violence of the public gaze, is questioned.
In front of her, Louise Chennevière, a young 30-year-old author, presents Pour Britneyher third book published by POL Editions This story interweaves the destinies of two female figures marked by their extraordinary trajectories: Britney Spears, world-famous star but deeply broken by the media machine, and Nelly Arcan, Quebec author of the best-seller Damnwho committed suicide at age 36.
What I see when I look at the photo of this little girl at the dawn of this new century is that she knows nothing yet of what the world will teach her, and that being a little girl is for her a joy because it means being able to become Britney Spears and Britney Spears for her then, is singing and dancing, it is being in her body, without fear and without distance, feeling very alive, it is keep, very far from fear but.
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She questions the pressures placed on women by society, the media and their own journeys, while questioning the wounds of her own generation.
These stories, different but complementary, invite reflection on the condition of women, the symbolic and concrete violence suffered by women, and the struggles to build themselves in a world which often places them on the margins or pushes them to erasure. Through their exchanges, the two authors share points of view nourished by their personal and literary experiences.
This dialogue will focus in particular on the various challenges that women may face today, in a context marked by the post-#MeToo upheavals. This literary dialogue is part of a broader reflection on the notions of intimacy, identity and resilience, carried by works which combine the force of testimony with social analysis.
Image credits: Claire Chazal in the show / Public Senate
Par Sara Verrecchia
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