From loss to son – Liberty

Marie-Hélène Lafon »There is in her this heavy lightness, this humanity which always rises, tenaciously, from a rurality riddled with abysses. Just crowned with the SGDL Grand Prix for all of her work, Marie-Hélène Lafon continues to write the Cantal of her childhood “by heart and by body”, in a language which, careful and sonorous, gives flesh to her novels parentage and resilience. Made up of twelve short fragments spanning a century, her Histoire du fils stretches between Paris where the solitary Gabrielle moves freely in elegant mysteries and this village of the Lot where she deposits one day, “without tangible procrastination”, her newborn child who will be raised by the aunt. Between “unknown father and double bottom mother” whom he sees only a few weeks a year, André grows up surrounded by cousins, ghosts and secret dizziness.

It is a tormented and sometimes tortured genealogy that the author deploys here, between the half-words of ancient dramas, in the long wake of dou

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