We could have titled this article: "Triumph of love", but we did not dare.
To avoid the cliché and the fall in the syrup. Yet, in this 100% autobiographical narrative, that's what it's all about: the victory of love in the face of opposing winds.
Those of the physical (he did not attract her at all), personality (she thought him insignificant), age (she was 27 years old, and he, 48). The sum of the three had everything to make a bide ... well no, it was a sex.
Yes, a desire that was born little by little, an invisible spark causing a flame initially underground, then a vast fire of bush. The fire of the skin went up to the heart; and this fireworks - despite some bugs - lasted nine months.
At the end of which he left her to return to his ex, to whom a mixture of dope and residual love seemed to bind him forever.
Being able to do nothing but swing that bottle of ink to the sea, she wrote their story. In small flashes, small scenes, small chapters. And so, leaving on her keyboard in search of these little things that had made them pass from contempt to indifference, then to interest and amorous ebullition, she virtually brought back from her ashes this magnificent story, which in the beginning was so little ... And, beyond its end - all history has one - triumph this love by memory and writing.
So, for this triumph of love to be complete, our jury did not hesitate.
Since it only needed one caress - despite the quality of the other finalists, Camille Laurens in particular - she would be For the skin of Emmanuelle Richard.
- Voted:
Fabrice Gaignault (president of the jury, editor-in-chief of culture and celebrities of MC), Marianne Mairesse (editor-in-chief of MC), Véronique Cardi (general director of the Pocket Book), Justine Lévy (novelist, and Nathalie Iris (bookseller at Mots en marge, La Garenne-Colombes) and Gilles Chenaille (literary critic and creator of the Ruedesauteurs.net website).
- Have shined:
The other finalists, from our monthly selections of 2016, were: The one you think of Camille Laurens (ed. Gallimard), Bellevue by Claire Berest (ed. Stock), Brillante by Stéphanie Dupays (Mercure de France) daughter of Annie Ernaux (ed. Gallimard) - who retired from the competition, not wanting, at her age, "to occupy the ground".
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