2023-10-18 13:08:41
Eric Fottorino. JOEL SAGET/AFP
CRITICISM – The truth of the facts nestles in the hollow of the words; the journalist has not completely ceded it to the poet.
Fottorino is a novelist familiar with literary autumns. His readers know that he became a meticulous listener of his genealogy. It must be said that she is unique: a mother, two fathers – including “the one who loved him softly”. And now an unknown sister. She recently emerged in his daily life, the involuntary heroine of a painful story: this child was entrusted to her at birth and, for ages, passed over in silence. We rely on Fottorino, sensitive pen, delicate words, to report this drama with the necessary restraint.
Where the writer surprises is in his choice, for the story of a race towards a lost sister, hoped for and found, to turn his back on the conventional novel, on the exhaustive investigation, with its part of staging. For this research in fraternity, his pen (was it Baudelaire’s verse, which he makes the title of his book, which gave him the idea?) takes the path of free verse.
Vowels and consonants
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