Yann Moix presents "Orléans"
Anyone familiar with Yann Moix's published work already knows that he is trapped by a past he venerates, a past that nonetheless scarred, humbled, and shattered him.
But this intimate childhood nightmare was previously only alluded to or treated in a burlesque manner, whereas here it forms the heart of the novel and is presented in all its stark reality.
For the first time, the author recounts the uninterrupted darkness of his childhood in two main parts (inside/outside), where the same years are revisited in as many short chapters (punctuated by changes in grade level, from kindergarten to advanced mathematics).
Inside: within the walls of the family home.
Outside: school, friends, love.
A novel of childhood that recounts the uninhabitable cosmos where the author lived, where he still lives, and which will inhabit him until his death, for from Orléans, the capital of his wounds, he will never be able to escape.
A deeply felt text, of rare poetry and beauty, where every landscape, every scent, every word seems to have been captured by sensitivities saturated with sorrow, in this present-day reality of martyred children.
No pathos here, no lament, but a profound and powerful melancholy that is the song of the deeply traumatized...
Learn more about "Orléans": https://www.hachette.fr/livre/orleans...