Published on October 15, 2024 at 3:03 p.m.
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One of the works in the running for the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens finds itself accused of “inciting debauchery”. It’s “Lost Children’s Club” by Rebecca Lighieri. We tell you why.
Last September, the 37th Prix Goncourt des Lycéens was launched. Among the list of fourteen novels in competition, one of them caused controversy with the SOS Education association. It is “Lost Children’s Club”, signed Rebecca Lighieri (POL). In a letter addressed to the Prime Minister, Michel Barnier, and to the Ministers of Culture and National Education, the association “close to the extreme right” according to “Actualitté”, considers that the said novel is “pornographic content and psychologically dangerous”, containing “a succession of detailed sexual acts, scatological and sadomasochistic practices” and contributing to “a permanent and trivialized incestual environment”.
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A controversial work?
Still in this same letter, SOS Education states: “For the educational institution to put such a work in the hands of adolescents in the midst of puberty upheaval and the discovery of sexuality amounts to incitement to debauchery and psychological abuse. Or even endangering others. »
Then she continues, “for a high school student, and even if he is a consumer of pornography (he knows that it is a transgression), such a book placed in his hands by National Education consists of a form of moral guarantee that he will understand it as a deaf and unhealthy initiation.” The association believes that “National Education must set up a commission to verify the selection before the books are studied in class”.
In 2007, SOS Education notably stood up against the “Zizi sexual” exhibition, which featured Titeuf at the Cité des Sciences. “Actualitté” also underlines that in 2023, “Sophie Audugé, general delegate and spokesperson for SOS Education, participated in the conference of “Parents vigilantes”, a collective of parents of students from Éric Zemmour’s Reconquête party “.
A novel praised by the press
“The Lost Children’s Club” was released in bookstores on August 22. Written by Rebecca Lighieri (pseudonym of Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam), the novel narrates the complicated relationship of Miranda, 27, with her parents, Armand and Bike, a couple of famous actors. A dark and melancholic work which also recounts the ills of generation Z… Its author is already winner of the Inter Book Prize in 2018 with “Acardie” and the Prix Médicis, the same year, for “La Treizième Heure”.
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