2023-07-14 04:05:49
“It’s not just regarding the insulting coldness of the mother or the outrageous good nature of the father; something is wrong,” says Dana, a 26-year-old Frenchwoman of Kabyle origin, a few moments following her arrival in the decrepit family mansion of her future in-laws, the Paternosters, in the marshy region of Dombes, where she must pass. all summer with her lover, Basil, who has suddenly become an expert in the art of cognitive diversion (gaslighting). Third novel by Julia Richard (Carne, HSN, 2020), Paternoster depicts a model of toxic relationship that is repeated from generation to generation, where the heroine, under the influence of a narcissistic pervert, will have to choose between the social elevator or his own freedom. Skillfully borrowing from the codes of the Gothic novel and folk horror, armed with a lively pen and a vitriolic humor, the author denounces with a bang the traditional shackles that the patriarchy wants to sneakily impose on women, from the proudest to the most destitute.
Paternoster
★★★
Julia Richard, The Man with No Name, Montreuil, 2023, 258 pages
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