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In “Generator”, the author unfolds the life of her biological father, a nuclear engineer, a half-journalistic half-dreamer company.
It is a composite story that skilfully navigates between three pronouns: “is”, «tu» et «il». The first serves as a support for the author and narrator to tell the quest-investigation that she leads, the central object of this surprisingly breathless book; the other two are used to designate the biological father whom she does not know, or knows very little regarding. Why these two options, for one and the same character? Because they offer Rinny Gremaud the leisure to play between the romantic and the real, to pass from one to the other at will. THE «il» most often says what she definitely knows regarding him, while the «tu» opens the doors of his imagination to fill the biographical and psychological voids of the absent. “And if I made you a fiction? asks the writer. It would be to return you to the status of ghost, to return you, or rather to condemn you, to seize you forever in the net of my fantasy. And too bad if this very literary ambition and its outcome displease the person concerned: “It doesn’t matter that you don’t find yourself there, that you protest eventually. For it to have been otherwise, it would have been enough for you to tell me this story yourself. That you reply to my letter. It is your cowardice that will have made me all-powerful.
Of the unknown man but still alive at more than 80 years old, Rinny Gremaud, also a journalist for the Swiss media the weatheressentially knows one thing: this sire has had a career