For years, Marc has been sleeping on the sofa in the large living room. Not enough room in the rooms. At 21, he’s the oldest. Sometimes he comes home late. Or sleep. Or come out at night to smoke: “Sometimes you want to watch a movie on your own. And the living room from midnight in the dark is freedom. No noise, no one to ask you this or that. ” The T4, in a HLM in Hauts-de-Seine, shrinks when the whole family is there: there are seven of them, including the parents.
The student said that everyone, from the oldest to the smallest, had naturally found a balance. Arrange with narrowness, find your moments, let others breathe. The imposed confinement puts everything flat. “At midnight, my little brother and my little sister are not yet sleeping. At 8 o’clock in the morning, my mother goes back and forth at home. On the couch, I disturb. ” The father goes in circles in the proper sense of the term. He squats the windows, becomes obsessed with tidying up, scrutinizes the exits by limiting them to
Liberation reserves this article for its subscribers
To continue reading, subscribe
€ 8 /
month
without engagement
–
–
–
100% digital offer
Do you already have a subscribed account?
- All our articles in
unlimited - The newspaper in version
digital the day of its publication - Our newsletters
exclusive - RaJeux, our app from
games
–
–
–
,
– .